On Feb 4, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Juan wrote:
Thanks Charilaos
probably you have never used dumped preformated nor perhaps LaTeX at all.
I am actually one of the maintainers of the LaTeX bundle, and using LaTeX for more than 7 years now on a daily basis. But I have never had the need to learn about .fmt files at all. Also, a google search for "dumped preformated" or even "latex dumped preformated" does not really return any meaningful results, so are you sure you are using the right terminology? The LaTeX Companion doesn't seem to have much info on these fmt files either. So I doubt this is something that an average LaTeX user sees in front of them. (Probably because most of them are happy with latex.fmt or whatever the default one is.)
You are right though that i have never used dumped preformated, whatever they are. Anyway, moving on,
This could justify that you didnt' never seen any first line like that %&format as you can see, %& are the initial characters. They must be at the first line and since many years (OzTeX and previous) did hep to change formats and avoid complex usepackages at the start of your latex sources
TeXShop, OzTeX and many others recognize that "format" like the format.fmt file it must use in
pdflatex -format format source.tex
We should be able to make this change easily, I'll try to find some time this week to fix this on the subversion version of the bundle.
Another good thing it should do could be to retypeset it until no warnings and rebuild bibtex... etc.
Bundles -> Latex -> Help. Look at section 2.2 about Using latexmk.pl
If you typeset for first time a source.tex, there are no aux, log, etc, files there and it is very easy to recognize that situations and then retypeset one or two times more until all the Table of Contents were correctly updated
But most of the times you are already typesetting a document you have typeset before, so the absence of such files is not a very good indicator that a recompile is needed, especially if things like TOC don't need to be created. In any case, my point is that by telling TextMate to use latexmk.pl as per the instructions in the help file, it will compile the required number of times as you want.
And of course, you can always provide for it your very own script to do the compiling as you want it.
Thanks again.
Haris