Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Full Compilation Cycle In TeXMaker

As you know, we have to run pdflatex twice afterwards to get the document fully compiled. To run pdflatex at once causes a problem to compile \tableofcontents or \bibliography. If you want to be able to perform the full compilation cycle and view the finished *.pdf file, you have to do some sort of things:
  • click "Options" menuitem on TexMaker menubar
  • choose "Configure Texmaker"
  • choose "Quick Build" dialog from the pane on left hand side
  • click "Wizard" button
  • and choose the following sequence:
    1. PdfLaTeX
    2. Bibtex
    3. PdfLaTex
    4. PdfLaTex
    5. Pdf Viewer
Afterwards, to view your finished *.pdf file, just press F1