<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 23:03, Herbert Schulz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Using pdflatex doesn't change the necessity for using bibtex (or, possibly biber when using the biblatex package) and/or makeindex/xindy when you have bibliographies or indexes to generate.</blockquote><div><br></div>
<div>That's right - I forgot to take those situations into account. And that's why some people use <a href="http://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/">makefiles</a>. On Windows batch scripts could be used. I don't see the reason to involve Perl in the compiling of a tex file (having said that I acknowledge that the makefile I linked to above uses sed...).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sigmund</div></div>