[dundee] Emacs and org-mode

[Kris Davidson]

Yeah I run the process about 4 or 5 times. I just said twice as it
seemed more reasonable to the outsider considering LaTeX.

On 17 May 2010 15:28, Colin Brough <Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Kris Davidson wrote:
>> You need to, or rather I've needed to compile twice in my setup. There
>> are a few files that get created in the first compilation that aren't
>> pulled into the final document until step two (TOC, references) also
>> to update page numbers etc if these files exist from a previous
>> compilation. I did mine fairly low level though without a make file
>> etc.
>
> For a "from clean" source the maximum number of compilation steps is 4
> (latex, then bibtex, then latex again, then final latex again to get
> the page references right for anything that shifted position following
> the previous latex run).
>
>> Its fairly easy to convert the references and it'll pay off when you
>> do the paper, Google Scholar has Bibtex files so you could just search
>> download them copy all the files into one.
>
> The other way I've found fairly recently is the isbn2bib script by
> David Griffith (google it!) - give it an ISBN number and it gives you
> a full BiBTeX reference for that publication that you can then paste
> into your .bib file... And once you've cited something in one paper,
> you never have to retype the reference information again, its all in
> your .bib file...
>
> --
>
> Cheers
>
> Colin
>
> Rev Colin Brough
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