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Parametrize a better Latexmk

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JeT

The answer https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=583 finally enabled me to understand better Latexmk structure and synthax. I did my homework and applied, it works great. However, my current synthax makes me think there is an automated next step.

Thanks to https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=1375, I learned how to pass parameters to a documents with `pgfkeys`.

https://manpages.debian.org/testing/latexmk/latexmk.1.en.html is clear but I don't manage to apply.

**Context**

I have one course ABC101 and I need several compilations (merci `latexmk`) to produce different outputs for 

- different audience
	- stud(ents)
	- prof
- different formats
	- notes
	- beamer
- different pagelayouts (single or multipage)
	- mono
    - multi

The (working) result is the horrible (3yo level) code below.

There is a better way... 

**My question**

How do I reach something like

```
Maindocument = MWE.tex
Course = ABC101
Audience = {prof,stud}
Format =  {notes,beamer}
Pagelayouts =  {mono,multi}

Compilationmode = pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape

latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="Compilationmode" -jobname=Course_Audience_Format_Pagelayouts -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={Course}{Format}{Audience}{Pagelayouts}}" -usepretex MWE

```


rather than this horrible...

```
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_notes_prof_mono -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{notes}{prof}{mono}}" -usepretex MWE
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_notes_prof_multi -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{notes}{prof}{multi}}" -usepretex MWE
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_notes_stud_mono -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{notes}{stud}{mono}}" -usepretex MWE
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_notes_stud_multi -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{notes}{stud}{multi}}" -usepretex MWE
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_beamer_prof_mono -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{beamer}{prof}{mono}}" -usepretex MWE
latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape" -jobname=ABC101Lec1_beamer_stud_mono -pretex="\def\mykeys{format={ABC101}{beamer}{stud}{mono}}" -usepretex MWE

```

**Edit**
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29671/how-to-configure-latexmk-to-work-recursively-pdf-thumbnails gives me an idea of what I'm looking for.

Top Answer

samcarter

One possibility would be to script this. Here an example using a small lua file which can be executed with

```bash
lua filename.lua
```
---

```lua
Maindocument = "MWE.tex"
Course = "ABC101"
Audience = {"prof","stud"}
Format =  {"notes","beamer"}
Pagelayouts =  {"mono","multi"}
Compilationmode = "pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape"

for Audience_key,Audience_value in ipairs(Audience) do
    for Format_key,Format_value in ipairs(Format) do
        for Pagelayouts_key,Pagelayouts_value in ipairs(Pagelayouts) do
           os.execute(
               "latexmk -pdf -pdflatex=\"" 
               ..  Compilationmode 
               .. "\" -jobname=" 
               .. Course 
               .. "Lec1_" 
               .. Format_value 
               .. "_" 
               .. Audience_value 
               .. "_" 
               .. Pagelayouts_value 
               .. " -pretex=\"\\def\\Cours{" 
               .. Course 
               .. "}\\def\\Lec{1}\\def\\mykeys{format={" 
               .. Course 
               .. "}{" 
               .. Format_value 
               .. "}{" 
               .. Audience_value 
               .. "}{" 
               .. Pagelayouts_value 
               .. "}}\" -usepretex "
               .. Maindocument
               .. " \n"
           )
        end
    end
end
```

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