Paper Compilation

This page describes how the paper compilation process is handled inside \BlueLaTeX.

Background Compilation

Paper compilation in \BlueLaTeX is performed as a background task. No user action is needed anymore.

This task is started when the first author joins the compiler resource of a paper. It is stopped when the last author leaves the compiler resource.

By joining the compiler resource of a paper, the author subscribes to an update stream that sends results of the compilation (either the compiled paper, or the error log).

Compilation Settings

Each paper may have specific compilation settings. These settings allow people to inform \BlueLaTeX how the compilation is to be performed:

• compiler tells \BlueLaTeX which compiler to use to compile the paper (latex, pdflatex, xelatex, lualatex, ...),
• interval tells \BlueLaTeX how long (in seconds) it must wait between to recompilations,
• timeout tells \BlueLaTeX after what timeout (in seconds) it must stops the current compilation pass, and (possibly) retry.
• synctex tells \BlueLaTeX to generate SyncTeX data when compiling the paper.