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</div>If your call is "pdflatex filename.tex" I can't even see how you do the<br>
first one automatically; could you expand on that?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>the first run is done by user. Just as you or anyone else from an editor typeset a document by the means of "pdflatex filename.tex"</div>
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Anyway, solutions include: changing your call so that it first calls<br>
the preprocessor, then "pdflatex filename.ltx", then deletes the file;<br>
or you can use a master file with an input file:<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is exactly what I have already said. But it seems impossible that during one run of pdflatex (the one that user starts initially), you can have a second pdflatex run. </div></div>
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