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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/latexmk/extra-scripts/README1 b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/latexmk/extra-scripts/README1 index aeb5e615e49..91ad908c9b0 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/latexmk/extra-scripts/README1 +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/latexmk/extra-scripts/README1 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Auxiliary scripts for latexmk ============================= John Collins (collins at phys.psu.edu) -20 Jan 2007 +19 Apr 2010 Latexmk can be configured to use different programs than the standard ones to perform its tasks. If a user finds that the default behavior @@ -110,31 +110,34 @@ needs you to do to make the script executable. dvipdfm_call.bat dvipdfmx_call.bat - Scripts for using dvipdfm or dvipdfmx from latexmk. They solve - the problem that when latexmk converts dvi files to pdf, it - assumes that it is using dvipdf. If you reconfigure latexmk to - use dvipdfm or dvipdfmx, the command line arguments are wrong, and - you will get an error message. The scripts dvipdfm_call and - dvipdfmx_call do the appropriate conversion of the command-line - arguments. + Scripts for using dvipdfm or dvipdfmx with the same command-line + syntax as dvipdf. - For Unix-like systems, including linux and Mac OS-X, use the - scripts dvipdfm_call and dvipdfmx_call. - For MS-Windows systems use the batch files dvipdfm_call.bat and - dvipdfmx_call.bat. + To get latexmk to use dvipdfm or dvipdfmx to convert dvi files to + pdf files, it USED to be necessary to configure latexmk to use one + of these scripts. But since v. 4.01, latexmk has more flexible + configuration methods. Currently, to use dvipdfm, just put the + following in one of latexmk's initialization files (e.g., + ~/.latexmkrc): - To use these scripts: install the scripts/batch files as - appropriate, and configure one of latexmk's initialization files - to use the script you need. The correct configuration will have - one of the lines + $dvipdf = "dvipdfm %O -o %D %S"; - $dvipdf = 'dvipdfm_call'; - or - $dvipdf = 'dvipdfmx_call'; + (To use dvipdfmx, just change the string dvipdfm to dvipdfmx.) + The command specified here is used when latexmk is requested to + make pdf files by conversion from dvi files, e.g., by the + latexmk's command-line option -pdfdvi. - Then you will need to set to use the dvipdf method of making pdf - files, either on latexmk's command line, or in a configuration - file with the line + But I leave the scripts here. For OLD versions of latexmk, you + would have used the configuration line - $pdf_mode = 3; + $dvipdf = 'dvipdfm_call'; #OBSOLETE + or + $dvipdf = 'dvipdfmx_call'; #OBSOLETE + + These still work, but they are obsolete. + + For Unix-like systems, including linux and Mac OS-X, use the + scripts dvipdfm_call and dvipdfmx_call. + For MS-Windows systems use the batch files dvipdfm_call.bat and + dvipdfmx_call.bat. |