CTAN update: latexmk

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Oct 19 00:48:12 CEST 2011


the daemon chides me (i was watching the television):

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: latexmk
> Author's name: John Collins
> Package version: 4.27a
> Location on CTAN: support/latexmk/
> Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation routine
> License type: gpl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>    1. Deal with problem that making of ps or pdf file via a temporary
>       file fails if the command making it has no %D placeholder 
>    2. Add png to list of graphics extensions for pdflatex
>    3. Add -norc option that prevents auto reading of rc files.
>    4. Options -aux-directory -output-directory like those of
>       (pdf)latex, to set the output directories of
>       (pdf)latex. (-aux-directory is MiKTeX only). Corresponding
>       configuration variables, and placeholders for command
>       specification.

thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/latexmk.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/latexmk/

The catalogue entry will change (somewhat) overnight tonight.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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