I use TexStudio to write my PhD thesis (large document), and I have set up the compiler options on: txs:///pdflatex | txs:///biber | txs:///pdflatex | txs:///pdflatex
However, when I ask TexStudio to compile my file, it runs this whole sequence (pdflatex/biber/pdflatex/pdflatex) multiple times before finally producing the pdf file. It can sometimes repeat it 6 or 7 times, with no particular error message displayed.
Do you have any suggestion as to what is happening and how to solve this as it takes an awfully long time to run the whole document?
I am fairly new to LaTex and probably doing something wrong, so would welcome any suggestion.
My preamble is as follows (prety long sorry):
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage[a4paper,left=4cm,right=2cm,bottom=3cm,headheight=14.5pt]{geometry}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\setlength{\cftbeforechapskip}{10pt}
\setlength{\cftbeforesecskip}{10pt}
\setlength{\cftbeforesubsecskip}{10pt}
\renewcommand\cftfigafterpnum{\vskip10pt\par}
\renewcommand\cfttabafterpnum{\vskip10pt\par}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[R]{Chapter \thechapter}
\fancyfoot{}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[font={color=blue(pigment),small},labelfont=it,bf]{caption}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\captionsetup[subfigure]{hangindent=0pt, indention=0pt,position=top,labelfont=bf,textfont=normalfont,singlelinecheck=off,justification=raggedright}
\DeclareCaptionLabelFormat{blank}{}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,svgnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{nicefrac}
\usepackage{anyfontsize}
\definecolor{ceruleanblue}{rgb}{0.16, 0.32, 0.75}
\definecolor{darkcerulean}{rgb}{0.03, 0.27, 0.49}
\definecolor{blue(pigment)}{rgb}{0.2, 0.2, 0.6}
\definecolor{beaublue}{rgb}{0.74, 0.83, 0.9}
\definecolor{palecornflowerblue}{rgb}{0.67, 0.8, 0.94}
\definecolor{babyblue}{rgb}{0.54, 0.81, 0.94}
\definecolor{babyblueeyes}{rgb}{0.63, 0.79, 0.95}
\chapterfont{\fontsize{28}{30}\selectfont\color{darkcerulean}}
\sectionfont{\fontsize{14}{16.8}\selectfont}
\subsectionfont{\fontsize{12}{14.4}\selectfont}
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}{0cm}{0.5\baselineskip}{0.5\baselineskip}
\usepackage[backend=biber, style=authoryear-comp, citestyle=authoryear-comp, isbn=false, url=false, doi=false, uniquelist=false ,uniquename=false, maxcitenames=2]{biblatex}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\addbibresource{Thesis.bib}
\usepackage{setspace}
\overfullrule=2cm
Many thanks for your help!
Best Answer
A few things to try (in the order I think they might solve your problem)
default compiler
: to make the compilation sequence non-repeatable, click on the green arrow/triangle to make it change its colour from green to grey.Remove the checkbox
check and update bibliography before compiling
decrease the number of
maximum compile repetitions
from 5 to e.g. 1a dirty hack: I once had the problem, that the
internal precompile
got in my way. Unfortunately just removing the command does not seem to work, so I replaced it with a quick and harmless command, on linux based systems I useecho " "
.Furthermore I suggest to not invoke
txs:///pdflatex | txs:///biber | txs:///pdflatex | txs:///pdflatex
each time you compile, but to use an automation tool likelatexmk
,ltx2any
, ... which are smart enough to know which compilation steps are currently necessary and do only them.