On 5/2/07 7:49 AM, "Charilaos Skiadas" skiadas@hanover.edu wrote:
On May 1, 2007, at 3:22 AM, David F. Snyder wrote:
Hi
I am hoping someone has solved this problem.
I use latekmk.pl script as $TM_TEX_COMPILER to compile my LaTeX documents from within Textmate and it works wonderfully on every document I've made, except for any document that uses the exam package.
The problem is small: I must execute cmd-R twice to get it to compile the number of points correctly. This is only a problem within Textmate; if I run the script from the command line it works perfectly. And while it is a small problem it is vexing, since latexmk.pl was made specifically to deal with the need to run LaTeX etc. multiple times.
I wonder, whether the latexmk.pl script that runs from the command line is the same as the one that runs from within TM. I think TM will run its own version of latexmk.pl, which I updated recently. But perhaps you have another latexmk.pl? When you use latexmk.pl from the command line, how do you invoke it, and what is the value, if any, returned by "which latexmk.pl"?
The only version of latexmk.pl installed is in the LaTeX bundle's subdirectory ./Support/bin/ I update my bundle packages automatically using the GetBundle bundle. I manually updated just in case, the same problem persists.
To run it from the command line, I actually just pasted the absolute path into the command line. So the command looks like:
perl -pdf /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Sup port/bin/latexmk.pl myfile.tex
Yesterday my final exam required three cmd-R's to generate the grading table. Perhaps I need to up the upperbound of compiles allowed as the default in latexmk.pl? Or perhaps the script doesn't use pdflatex, which is what the -pdf flag does for latexmk.pl
My guess is that there is a bug in either cmd-R (though I can't find one) or somewhere in the bowels of Textmate.
Seeing as how I used this package frequently, almost daily, I'm guessing that this need to cmd-R twice will cost me about an hour and a half of my life in the coming year.
Best wishes
David
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College
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