comments:latexmk

[utterances-bot]

Using Latexmk — homepage

https://mg.readthedocs.io/latexmk.html

[2sn]

When I run this I get lots of error messages about missing files, on third re-run it is finally quiet but does not produce pdf file. Seems to be not working as I would have expected, as a working drop-in for pdflatex. (pdflatex compiles the file just fine with no error message)

[2sn]

I see, I need to specify -pdf option, then it seems to work. But somehow I need to run it twice before it decides that it is all done. Maybe there is a missing iteration for use with beamer?

[mgeier]

Yeah, you'll have to use -pdf at the command line or use $pdf_mode = 1; in your configuration file.

I don't know about the beamer problem, the whole idea of latexmk is to figure out how many times to run LaTeX ...

If you manage to make a minimal reproducible example, you can probably report this problem to the author (http://www.personal.psu.edu/~jcc8/)?

[anutosh491]

hey can we change the deafult options for latexmk i want to use lualatex for pdf generation but latexmk throws error showing it uses pdflatex

[mgeier]

You can try using this in your configuration file:

$pdf_mode = 1;
$pdflatex = 'lualatex';

UPDATE:

Actually, there is a dedicated mode for lualatex, no need to redefine the pdflatex command. Just use -pdflua on the command line or set this in the config file:

$pdf_mode = 4;

[rpgoldman]

Is there some way to error only on warnings in the final run of latex in latexmk? I have set up latexmk in Jenkins to make sure no one breaks the build of a document. I tried using -Werror, but it breaks on the first run of latex, when there are naturally a lot of undefined references, etc. I'd really like latexmk to error only if there are warnings in the final run. Thanks!

[mgeier]

I tried using -Werror, but it breaks on the first run of latex

Are you using the latest version? According to man latexmk, errors should only be caused in the last run:

   -Werror
          This causes latexmk to return a non-zero status code if  any  of
          the  files  processed  gives a warning about problems with cita‐
          tions or references (i.e., undefined citations or references  or
          about  multiply  defined references).  This is after latexmk has
          completed all the runs it needs to try  and  resolve  references
          and  citations.  Thus -Werror causes latexmk to treat such warn‐
          ings as errors, but only when they occur on the last run of *la‐
          tex  and  only after processing is complete.  Also can be set by
          the configuration variable $warnings_as_errors.

As a work-around, you could try to run latemk once without -Werror and immediately run it again with -g -Werror, which should repeat the last run (but I didn't test if it handles warnings as expected).

[js-open-projects]

Please update link:
https://personal.psu.edu/~jcc8/software/latexmk/
to
https://www.cantab.net/users/johncollins/latexmk/index.html
as the old server is going retired.

[mgeier]

Thanks @js-open-projects, I have updated the links in #18.