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As suggested here , latexmk is a handy way to continually compile your document whenever the source changes. But often when you're working on a document you'll end up with errors and then latex will panic and wait for user input before continuing. That can get very annoying, especially recently when I hacked up something to compile latex directly from an etherpad document, which saves continuously as you type. Is there a setting for latex or latexmk to make it just abort with an error message if it can't compile? Or, if necessary, how would I set up some kind of Expect script to auto-dismiss LaTeX's complaints? (I had thought pdflatex 's option -halt-on-error would do the trick but apparently not.) Bonus question: Skim on Mac OSX is a nice pdf viewer that autorefreshes when the pdf changes (unlike Preview), except that whenever there's a latex error it makes you reconfirm that you want autorefreshing. Texniscope doesn't have this problem, but I had to ditch Texniscope for other reasons . Is there a way to make Skim always autorefresh, or is there another viewer that gets this right? ADDED: Mini-tutorial on latexmk based on the answer to this question: Get latexmk here: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk-jcc/ Add the following to your ~/.latexmkrc file: $pdflatex = 'pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode'; (For OS X with Skim) $pdf_previewer = "open -a /Applications/Skim.app"; </c

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