Hi all,
I'm using make to manage the compilation of latex documents. Latex offers
two compilers, "latex" and "pdflatex" that create .dvi and .pdf files,
respectively. When compiling either one, the list of steps (including
multiple runs of latex, each run builds on the outputs of the last run until
a final version is created) and command line arguments are the same, its
just the compiler that is different.
I have something like the following:
%.dvi:
latex ... args ...
command1
latex ... args ...
command2
command3
latex ... args ...
%.pdf:
pdflatex ... args ...
command1
pdflatex ... args ...
command2
command3
pdflatex ... args ...
What is the best way to handle this so I don't have to maintain two
identical lists of commands? Is there a way to do (in pseudocode of
course):
if creating dvi then
compiler = latex
else
compiler = pdflatex
end if
$(compiler) ...args...
command1
$(compiler) ...args...
command2
command3
$(compiler) ...args...
Thanks
James
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