LATEX-MK(1)

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💖 LATEX-MK — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so this is the latex-mk page from section 1 of the manual, and honestly? it's giving "written for Debian because upstream never made one" energy. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

latex-mk — automate compilation of LaTeX files. no cap, that's the whole job. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

latex-mk [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes options, she does the thing. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this manual page documents the latex-mk commands briefly — like a little snack, not the full meal. and here's the tea: this page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. not one!! 😭 instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

latex-mk is a wrapper script used by the LaTeX-Mk makefile system for LaTeX documents. its whole purpose, its main character arc, is to run LaTeX the appropriate number of times to resolve all references and page changes associated with resolving references. yes. references. repeatedly. until they're resolved. she's persistent and we love that for her. ✨

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

here's a lil summary of the options — for a complete description, see the Info files (iykyk, the real lore lives there).

  • -h, --help — show description of the script. like a little "hi what do u do" moment. 💖
  • --version — show version of program. the receipts. 🧾
  • -b, --bibtex — force call to BibTeX. not asking, forcing. 💅
  • --clean — delete log file. bye bye evidence 🗑️✨
  • --debug — enable debug mode. turn the volume up on the chaos 🔥
  • --ignore-errors — ignore errors. living in denial but make it functional 🙈
  • --pdflatex — use pdflatex instead of latex.
  • --tex2page — use tex2page instead of latex.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others — she's generous like that 🫶). permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. periodt.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. go read it, bestie, it's iconic 📜

Copyright © 2006 Rafael Laboissiere

lowkey a short one but she said everything she needed to say 💅

and that's the page, fr fr — sourced from [FIXME: source], dated January 28, 2006, slaying in section 1 of the manual the whole time. mwah 🎀💖

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