Texmaker and TeXstudio ⇒ Concatenating compilations

[afullo]

Is there a way to concatenate different compilations, in order to recall them in the correct order with a single key?

For instance, I want to do the steps 'tex' -> 'dvi' -> 'ps' -> 'pdf' (F2, F4, F8) without pressing three different keys.

Thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

Texmaker has quick-build commands and keyboard shortcuts for them. Go to the Texmaker configuration, to "Quick-build", choose "User" to create a custom profile. Before that, look at the existing profiles. One may already work for you, or you can see how they are built.

Stefan

[afullo]

Welcome to the forum!

Texmaker has quick-build commands and keyboard shortcuts for them. Go to the Texmaker configuration, to "Quick-build", choose "User" to create a custom profile. Before that, look at the existing profiles. One may already work for you, or you can see how they are built.

Stefan

It works, thanks for the solution and thanks also for the welcome!

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

arara might also be of interest to you. You set the programs to run in the preamble of the document, call arara and arara does the work for you.

Code: Select all

% arara: latex
% arara: biber
% arara: latex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\cite{companion}

\blindtext
\printbibliography
\end{document}

[afullo]

Hi and welcome,

arara might also be of interest to you. You set the programs to run in the preamble of the document, call arara and arara does the work for you.

Code: Select all

% arara: latex
% arara: biber
% arara: latex
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\cite{companion}

\blindtext
\printbibliography
\end{document}

Thanks. So by varying options in there, compilations are automatically done in the desired format(s) ?

[Johannes_B]

Yep, you decide on the programs and the order in which they should be called, arara does the rest. If you comment out the biber line, biber will not be run. Could be a bit faster then maintaining different profiles.