It is a general "feature" of TeX that documents with tables of contents, indices, bibliographies, and so on, have to be "iterated to convergence". A couple of PhD theses came out of Stanford; the problem is in that which page one thing goes on depends on where other things went, which depends on where the first thing went... TeX users got accustomed to this, which meant that they also tolerated similar things in outboard tools like bibtex. You could of course run bibtex explicitly to recreate the .bbl file.
Frankly, the suggestion of patching texi2pdf to delete the .bbl file(s) seems like the simplest way forward. On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 01:25, J C Nash <profjcn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can understand Rolf's concern. Make is a tool that is very helpful, > but also not trivial to learn how to make work. If a good Makefile > has been set up, then things are easy, but I've generally found my > skills limited to fairly simple Makefiles. > > I would suggest that what is needed is a bit of modest collaboration > to set up a Makefile for dealing with this issue that has enough comments > so it is clear what Make will be doing. I suspect that in this case the > need is to remove the offending .bbl file and then run the tex*** operations. > Possibly the result is small enough to post in this thread. Anyone? > > Cheers, JN > > > > On 2021-08-28 9:14 a.m., Rolf Turner wrote: > > > > On Sat, 28 Aug 2021 12:49:04 +0300 > > Eric Berger <ericjber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> As Achim wrote in point (2), Makefile is your friend. > > > > Well, all I can say is that Makefile is *not* my friend; I have never > > made its acquaintance and wouldn't know where to begin looking. > > > > Would it be possible for you to provide a template/prototype Makefile > > and give me some idea what to *do* with it? > > > > cheers, > > > > Rolf Turner > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
