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Reference: Build system

ModernDoc supports both:

  • direct latexmk usage
  • Makefile wrappers (optional convenience)
latexmk -lualatex --shell-escape main.tex

Useful debugging flags:

latexmk -lualatex --shell-escape -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error main.tex

Watch mode

latexmk -lualatex --shell-escape -pvc main.tex

Cleaning

latexmk -C
rm -rf _minted-*

latexmkrc (typical)

  • set LuaLaTeX as the engine
  • enable biber
  • set build/ as output directory
  • keep LuaTeX caches in build

Makefile (typical)

A Makefile is helpful if you ship multiple example documents:

  • make article
  • make thesis
  • make watch-article