[Tex/LaTex] How to ignore .latexmkrc

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I usually love my .latexmkrc settings. However I am trying to play with Template Toolkit to build a LaTeX file, then compile it with latexmk (all of this inside a perl script) and thus I would like to use the default latexmk settings (i.e. no preview continuously etc).

I would like to keep my .latexmkrc for personal use, therefore I am looking for a way to tell latexmk to ignore my $HOME/.latexmkrc file (via the -r flag?). Is this possible?

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A belated answer: A new version of latexmk does what was asked for. This is v. 4.27a at

http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/versions.html

Just invoke latexmk with the option -norc, and it will omit reading all its standard initialization files (system, user, and current directory). The -r option still works, so you use a customized initialization file.

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As I noted in my edit, if you add the -f flag to latexmk, it continues after each plot is generated and tries again.

Unfortunately, these "re-runs" are counted as part of the number of times latexmk calls latex to build the document. By default, it only does 5 of these, but you can modify this with a configuration parameter. Create a file .latexmkrc in the directory with your tex files and add

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