[TxMt] LaTeX bundle and the exam package

[David F. Snyder]

On 5/3/07 10:08 AM, "David F. Snyder" <dsnyder at txstate.edu> wrote:

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> On 5/2/07 7:49 AM, "Charilaos Skiadas" <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
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>> On May 1, 2007, at 3:22 AM, David F. Snyder wrote:
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>>> 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"?
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> 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

Oops. The "-pef" flag comes after the script name.

Perl 
/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Bundles/Latex.tmbundle/Sup
port/bin/latexmk.pl  -pdf  myfile.tex

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> 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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> Best wishes
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> 
> David F. Snyder, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> Department of Mathematics
> Texas State University
> 601 University Drive
> San Marcos, TX 78666
> 
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