I have been working on Template::Plugin::Latex recently and have got it to:

* run latex repeatedly if necessary to resolve references or if the
values of labels (i.e. page references) continue to change
* run bibtex if use of citations is detected (and run latex again
afterwards)
* run makeindex if the generation of a raw index file is detected (and
again re-run latex)
* modify TEXINPUTS to include the source directory in the search path so
that file inclusion (including inclusion of graphics files) works

I am currently tidying it up and working on some unit tests and will
then commit to subversion and in due course upload a developer release
to CPAN.  I am thinking of bumping the major version number given the
changes made to the module.

Is anyone interested in testing this and in discussing additions to the
interface (such as possibly flags to regard certain LaTeX warnings as
errors, to specify the work directly explicitly so that the auxilliary
files can be examined before they are automatically deleted, and so
on)?  You can reply to me off-list if you prefer.

I expect to have the code in a consistent state ready to commit to
subversion in the next day or so, and hopefully have a developer release
out in a week or so.

Andrew

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