[Omake] Re: Set of changed files

[David Kågedal]

Luis O'Shea <loshea at gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to implement a simple fixed point build within omake (see
> http://lists.metaprl.org/pipermail/omake/2007-March/001505.html) to
> aid in compiling LaTeX documents.
>
> Suppose you have a document a.tex and a bibliography x.bib, then a
> typical run to produce the final DVI would look like
>
>   latex a
>   bibtex a
>   latex a
>   latex a
>
> Things can get more complicated than the above, of course.

Isn't one of the complications that there isn't necessarily a fixpoint
for latex?  I believe that you can get ping-pong effects since the
layout uses information from the last run only.

-- 
David Kågedal