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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by radarsat1 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:02PM (#20192127)
I recommend `latexmk -pdf <mainfile.tex>`

(This just runs latex and bibtex in the right order and the right number of times..)

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by red_trumpet on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:18PM (#20192211)
Used in that way, it still uses pdflatex, which sucks if you have Unicode symbols (even Umlauts äöü are complicated...). Though latexmk can easily be configured to use xelatex with the -xelatex flag.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by ulucs on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:24PM (#20192256)
inputenc utf8 and fontenc T1 usually solves all my umlaut (and ğ) related problems
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by cperciva on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:07PM (#20192154)
the right number of times

Unless the authors managed to solve the halting problem, I guarantee that latexmk doesn't always run them the right number of times. ;-)

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by rocqua on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:07PM (#20192989)
It runs until you produce the same output twice in a row, or you exceed a maximum number of runs. This defaults to 5, but is user select able.

You can disable the maximum number of runs, in which case it really does run the right number of times.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by garmaine on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:14AM (#20193812)
The snark was that you can create an infinite chain of varying output.
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