A lighter weight approach to latexmk I've recently found is via a Makefile: https://github.com/ransford/pdflatex-makefile https://github.com/ransford/pdflatex-m

A lighter weight approach to latexmk I've recently found is via a Makefile: https://github.com/ransford/pdflatex-makefile https://github.com/ransford/pdflatex-makefile There's issues - for instance figure updates don't cause a recompile.