You were right, I did like latexmk! Thank you so much, this will definitely make live easier for me in the future. I don't know why I didn't know about this sooner.
I signed up for an account on this site just to thank you for Latexmk. I cannot tell you how useful I've found it for writing all of my honours work. The nonstop mode especially is fantastic.
Thank you for these tutorials. I have been willing to teach LaTeX to some of my grad students friends in the biology department (these poor souls still use Microsoft Word) and your link will definitely come in handy !
I think I did run across this in my initial research, but I was also interested in learning LaTeX and thought this project would be a good excuse to do that.
TIL about latexmk (which I gather is a perl script that handles a lot of the latex build deps, like running bibtex at the right time(s), for you automatically), thanks!
I never really understood most of the TeX world. I cargo-culted the bits I needed to make:
* articles for journal submissions (easy, they all provided packages or templates),
* my thesis (somebody had written a latex class that took care of all the school's formatting requirements a ~decade prior), and
* a resume,
and never dug into the differences between tex, latex, miktex, texlive, auctex, lyx, pdftex, xetex, luatex etc etc etc etc etc.
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