using Make for documents

using Make for documents

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

At the recent User Meeting, a few people were interested in how to use
make to maintain complex documents.  Here is version 0 of a step-by-step
explanation:

<http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/tex/>

Comments welcome!  The URL may change.  I'll eventually put it on the
wiki, or (since I prefer the GPL to the GFDL) put a link to it from the
wiki once it's stable.

-Sanjoy

`A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their
 master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the
 last extremes of injustice and oppression.'  (Gibbon)  

Re: using Make for documents

[Peter Rolf]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> At the recent User Meeting, a few people were interested in how to use
> make to maintain complex documents.  Here is version 0 of a step-by-step
> explanation:
> 
> <http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/teaching/tex/>
> 
> Comments welcome!  The URL may change.  I'll eventually put it on the
> wiki, or (since I prefer the GPL to the GFDL) put a link to it from the
> wiki once it's stable.
> 
> -Sanjoy
> 
Hi Sanjoy,

make is really a very useful tool for nearly everything that has some
complexity. I'm currently trying to replace several shell scripts
(clean, xslt calls,..) with a single Makefile. So thanks for your very
good introduction in the usage of make.

Just some quick notes:

- the 'last section' link for the impatient is not working
- I missed variables (for file lists, command lines, whatever)
- a link to
  http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

For all Windows (XP) users without make there is

http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml

(quite old, but working).


Best, Peter

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>  master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the
>  last extremes of injustice and oppression.'  (Gibbon)  
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Re: using Make for documents

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> Just some quick notes:
> - the 'last section' link for the impatient is not working
> - I missed variables (for file lists, command lines, whatever)
> - a link to <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html>

Peter,

Thanks for the suggestions.  I just uploaded an updated version with
those changes and a few more (also, text functions), plus a .zip and a
.tar.gz with the final example to download.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)