Quick Start

If your main file is mypaper.tex:

$ curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ransford/pdflatex-makefile/master/Makefile.include
$ cat > Makefile
TARGET=mypaper
include Makefile.include

Features

Simple Makefile for typesetting papers using pdflatex.

Features:

• Simple to use: just set TARGET=<yourpaper> and include Makefile.include. See the example/ directory for a usage example.
• Supports multiple targets: set TARGETS=paper1 paper2 instead of TARGET.
• Calculates dependencies sanely. Detects changes to included .tex and .bib files and rebuilds when appropriate.
• Detects your revision control system (svn, git, hg) and defines a \Revision command you can use in your LaTeX markup to include a current revision identifier. Useful for circulating drafts for comment.
• make view opens your typeset document.
• Distills a camera-ready PDF (with fonts embedded): make distill
• To generate a draft with the revision number in its filename (to pass around), use make snapshot.