CTAN package update: latexmk
Date: September 29, 2008 8:13:45 PM CEST
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: latexmk
Author's name: John Collins
Location on CTAN: /support/latexmk
Summary description: Fully automated LaTeX document generation program
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
Latexmk itself is unchanged, at ver. 4.01. This update just concerns improvements in the documentation: - A better description of custom dependencies as implemented in the new version. - The file CHANGES summarizes the changes in the new version compared with the previous release.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
Latexmk itself is unchanged, at ver. 4.01. This update just concerns improvements in the documentation: - A better description of custom dependencies as implemented in the new version. - The file CHANGES summarizes the changes in the new version compared with the previous release.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexmk . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/latexmk (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
LaTeXmk – Fully automated LaTeX document generation
Latexmk completely automates the process of generating a LaTeX document. Given the source files for a document, latexmk issues the appropriate sequence of commands to generate a .dvi, .ps, .pdf or hardcopy version of the document.
An important feature is the preview continuous
mode
, where the script watches all of the source files
(primary file and included TeX and graphics files), and reruns
LaTeX, etc., whenever a source file has changed. Thus a previewer
can offer a display of the document’s latest state.
| Package | LaTeXmk |
| Version | 4.88 2026-03-09 |
| Copyright | 1998–2025 John Collins |
| Maintainer | John Collins Evan McLean (inactive) David J. Musliner (inactive) |