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The package helps to automate a typical LaTeX workflow that
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involves running LaTeX several times, running tools such as
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BibTeX or makeindex, and so on. It will log requests like
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"please rerun LaTeX" or "please run BibTeX on file X" to an
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external XML file which lists all open tasks in a machine-
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readable format. Compiler scripts and integrated LaTeX editing
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environments may parse this file to determine the next steps in
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the workflow in a way that is more efficient than parsing the
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main log file. In sum, the package will do two things: 1)
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enable package authors to use LaTeX commands to issue requests,
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2) collect all requests from all packages and write them to an
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external XML file at the end of the document.
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