DOCUMENTATION
LaTeX-X is a familly of bash scripts allowing to
completely compil a LaTeX2e file without looking if the compilation
must run several times or if a "bibtex" or "makeindex" has to be run.
Every thing is done automatically.
The compilation makes it possible to visualize and
to record, if one wishes, the result of the compilation as well in
PostScript as in PDF (it is not envisaged of visualization of the DVI,
but one can record it if one wishes it ), with the "latex", "pdflatex",
"pdflatex mode pst-pdf" compilers (that is, when the pst-pdf package is
loaded) and "xelatex". Used in a LaTeX editor, LaTeX-X has an "update"
function, which, when the compilation has already been done once and
the source has been modified one way or another, it only makes one
update compilation by performing only the necessary operations.
All of the documentation here is written assuming
that the basic "latex-x" executable is in your path. If this is not the
case, you must replace the "latex-x" command everywhere with «
path/bin/latex-x», where
path is the directory where you
installed LaTeX-X during installation.
General description
Use in a terminal
: for a description of using LaTeX-X in a terminal, type "latex-x
--help" in a terminal. Note that "file" must be the name of a LaTeX2e
file and must be given with its ".tex" extension. The [options] are, as
they should, optional.
WARNING. Do NOT use the commands provided for a terminal
in an editor or file manager. Refer to the documentation below for both
uses.
Built-in use in some LaTeX editors (Emacs,
Nedit, Kile, Texmaker, Texstudio, LyX)
Use in a file manager