On Thu, Oct 29 2015,Vincent Belaïche wrote: > Hello Sivaram, > > Make is not the best tool for LaTeX because often you have auxiliary > files that are both output and input and need to be written several > times. So the time-stamp based logic of Make is not adequate. > > Rather, like Tassilo, I use latexmk. Probably latexmk mydoc.tex will not > do readilly what you want, you need other options for selecting pdf > output, or being in nonstopmode (aka batch mode). you can set these as a > default with a .latexmkrc file (in your home directory for all projects, > or in the local dierctory just for this project, latexmk will read those > in sequence. You can also make custom dependencies through the > .latexmkrc file. And anyway, you can still call latexmk from a makefile > if you have a very complex generation scheme (that is what I do for the > lettre package, cf https://gna.org/projects/lettre_observatoire). > > Bye, > Vincent. >
Thanks, I will look into this. I don't have a very complicated setup, just a main tex file with lots of \input files and figures. That is pretty much the set up I use for most of my work. [snipped 56 lines] sivaram -- _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
