texify is a command-line utility that simplifies the creation of DVI (PDF) documents: texify automatically runs LaTeX (pdfLaTeX), MakeIndex and BibTeX as many times as necessary to produce a DVI (PDF) file with sorted indices and all cross-references resolved.
To run texify on an input file
foo.tex
, do this:
texify foo.tex
As shown in the example above, the input file names to
texify must include any extension
(.tex
, .ltx
,
…).
There are several command line options you can use to control texify (see texify(1)). Here are some examples:
texify --clean foo.tex
All auxiliary files will be removed, i.e., only the output
foo.dvi
file will be left in the current folder.
texify --tex-option=--src foo.tex
Passes the option --src
to the
TeX compiler.
texify --run-viewer foo.tex
Opens the output file foo.dvi
(unless there
are compile erros).
texify --tex-option=--src --viewer-option="-1 -s\"200 foo.tex\"" --run-viewer foo.tex
Compiles foo.tex
with source file
information (--src
) and then initiates forward DVI
search to open foo.dvi
at the source special
location “200 foo.tex”. The previewer option
-1
re-uses an existing previewer window.
See the Yap manual, for a complete list of previewer options.