Re: [AUCTeX] feature request: generate a makefile based on masterfile

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

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.

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