latex-makefile


A Makefile for LaTeX on *nix

LaTeX Makefile

The source for this project has moved to github: http://github.com/shiblon/latex-makefile The bug tracker is still working here until I can get it migrated. Keep submitting bugs, here or at github!

This is a single GNU makefile that builds a LaTeX document into various targets with minimal latex/bibtex invocations. It colorizes and swallows the normally unhelpful latex output so that errors and other important messages are easy to spot. It handles GNUplot, Fig, and Dot image creation (and many more formats besides), and does automatic dependency tracking.

Perhaps most important, it is convenient because it is a single file and only depends on standard Unix utilities that are likely to exist on any system. It includes built-in help documentation and various utilities to test whether it will work on your system. Just drop it in your source directory and type "make". Is something not working? Type "make help | less".

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Project Information

  • License: GNU GPL v2
  • 152 stars
  • hg-based source control

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