Questions tagged [rubber]
{rubber} is a wrapper for compiling LaTeX documents.
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What are the differences between latexmk and rubber?
I just stumbled on this blog post about rubber and was thinking: "Isn't that exactly what latexmk does?". So, now I wonder: isn't it? Or are there any differences?
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How to use Rubber With Makeglossaries?
Is there a way to use rubber with makeglossaries?
I found a solution for the simple case.
You have to add the rubber directive to the latex document, in that case myDoc.tex.
% rubber: onchange myDoc....
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How to pass options to latex compiler using rubber?
Gedit with latex plugin is a great tool for working with latex. However I need to modify standard tool which is is just a call of rubber. I would like to have possibility to to use inverse search. To ...
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How to fully build with Rubber?
How do I do a full build with rubber that does the equivalent of
latex foo
bibtex foo
makeindex -s myindex.ist foo
latex foo
latex foo
dvips foo
ps2pdf foo
The files I am using are
foo.tex
myindex....
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Using biber with gedit + rubber
I've been having a lot of problems trying to switch to biblatex with biber from bibtex, and after a few problems solved I'm at loss. The situation now:
biblatex works when not using biber as a ...
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What is the most elegant way to provide a cross-platform project with automated compilation routine?
There are many different ways to automate the compilation of a LaTeX project.
I would like to start a discussion, what would be the most flexible and elegant and omnipotent way to provide a project ...
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Dependencies in Rubber?
I have several figures compiled independently into several pdf files.
Rubber works great in their compilation.
The main document is compiling great with rubber as well.
How can I add dependency (if ...
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Rubber Fails Using XeLaTeX
My document builds just fine using xelatex, but now I am trying rubber and I get the following error:
$ rubber --module xelatex proposal
Source path uses special characters, error tracking might get ...
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rubber deletes my PDF output
When I use rubber --pdf test.tex && rubber --clean text.tex, I get test.pdf with nothing else in the working directory than test.tex.
But when I use rubber --pdf --clean text.tex, than I get ...
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Rubber with etex package
I am using rubber to compile my documents. In some of them (usually Beamer presentations), I use the etex package. In such a case, rubber aims to use as the command elatex to invoke the e-TeX engine ...
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Why is the empty document an error?
I'm using Pluma (basically gedit) with a plugin I found to help with tex documents and it does this very well, I just started a new one and activated the preview (because I'll want it at some point) ...
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Bad math delimiter in tikz tree
I'm trying to diagram an extensive form game using TikZ trees. The following code generates errors at compile time. Specifically, it complains about missing $'s and a bad math delimiter. I've been ...
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How to make a parbox with rubber width (like \hfill)
I have two parboxes that live next to each other:
\parbox[t]{2cm}{Foo!}
\hspace{3em}
\parbox[t]{12cm}{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
adipiscing elit. Ut purus elit, vestibulum ut, placerat ...
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Set correct path for BibTeX via Rubber
Setup
I am using Rubber to compile my LaTeX document.
In my root folder I have main.tex, mybib.bib (both coming from here) and Makefile.
main.tex
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{cite}
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use latexmk with jobname option for compilation and rubber for log parsing
I use following command for compiling, so all files created during compilation is stored under build_files:
latexmk -pdf -interaction=nonstopmode -jobname=./build_files/thesis thesis.tex
Here I've ...
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Rubber and \include: Missing aux file [closed]
I'm trying to build a multi-file document with Rubber. In thesis.tex, I have:
\include{intro}
and I have a file intro.tex.
It builds fine with pdflatex, but with rubber -d, I am getting the error:
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How to set automatic folding of newcommands and usepackages in vim?
How do I set automatic folding of packages outside of document and new commands inside of documents?
If I use {{{ }}} marker around newcommand it ignores the command and says undefined control ...
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How to install rubber on macOS?
Rubber seems to be available on various Linux repositories but not on macOS. What is the recommended way of installing rubber on macOS? Could a package be made available on Homebrew?
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\parbox with stretchable height
I am trying to create a framed \parbox that stretches to fill the available space. I have tried
\fbox{\parbox[c][0pt plus 1fill][t]{3in}{...Content...}}
but the \parbox doesn't seem to stretch at all....
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Save output files in another folder using Rubber
Save output files in another folder using Rubber (https://launchpad.net/rubber)
From pdflatex if you want get rid of output files you can use the optional argument -output-directory=target. Then all ...
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How to get with TexLive Windows/Linux same extensive verbose level as with Rubber?
If I compile the following MWE with Rubber under Linux (rubber --pdf VerboseDemo.tex) I get a nice verbose level including the HyperRef debug.
However if I compile with plain pdflatex under windows (...
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What changed in bibtex from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04? [closed]
I have a small project which uses \bibliographystyle{vancouver}
I'm not using actual Linux but the windows 10 Ubuntu subsystem.
On my desktop with Ubuntu 14 I just build it by: rubber file.tex
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Which build system should I prefer if I want to distribute tex files?
I want to improve some existing Makefiles in a project where everything is kept as tex files. However, running make pollute the directory with intermediate files and the current Makefile does not make ...
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rubber not compiling
I have a make file which uses rubber to compile LaTeX files. I recently upgraded Ubuntu to 15.10, and after upgrading, I receive the following error when trying to run rubber on a document. My ...
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Rubber: Cannot Find Bibliography Files When Building LaTeX Documents in a Separate Build Folder
I recently installed Rubber, a building system for LaTeX documents, using the command:
pip install latex-rubber
After installation, the Rubber Python scripts were placed in:
C:\Users\<userName>\...
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