I am a big fan of latexmk
and lately I have been looking a bit towards LuaTeX. However I am yet to find a way to get the functionality of latexmk (mainly recompilation on changes and automatic rerun an appropriate number of times to resolve cross references and such) for LuaTex. Is there something similar and if not how do you LuaTeX people survive without it? :)
You can use Lua(La)TeX
with latexmk
by setting the -pdflatex
parameter:
-pdflatex=<program>
- set program used for pdflatex.
(replace '<program>
' by the program name)
So latexmk
should call lualatex
instead of pdflatex
if you invoke it like this:
latexmk -pdflatex=lualatex -pdf <texfile>
or with newer versions of latexmk
there is direct Lua(La)TeX
/XeLaTeX
support:
-lualatex
Use lualatex. That is, use lualatex to process the source file(s) to pdf (in place of pdflatex).
This option is exactly equivalent to specifying the following sequence of options:
-pdflatex="lualatex %O %S" -pdf -dvi- -ps-
-
1
Instead of adding the -lualatex
flag to each application of latexmk
, you could
place the following
$pdflatex = 'lualatex -file-line-error %O %S'; $pdf_mode = 1;
in an '.latexmkrc' file. This file should reside in your home folder, if you use
lualatex
in all your jobs, or in the folder(s) where your lualatex
jobs are.
More generally, you will find a host of examples and boilerlate code for .latexmkrc
in the respective CTAN repository
Since version 4.51
of latexmk, you can use the following .latexmkrc
:
$pdf_mode = 4;
$postscript_mode = $dvi_mode = 0;
-
For the second line
$postscript_mode = $dvi_mode = 0;
, I think both default to false/0 anyway. – Alex Povel Mar 23 '19 at 22:17