The Paper Makefile is a Makefile for generating a paper.pdf from a latex source. It manages most of the dependencies like generating pdf images from SVG, reducing the size of JPG or PNG and generating svg images from dot files.
Directory organization
In the directory the Makefile is located it clones the repositories for Images, Acronyms and Bibliography. They are named exactly like that. Furthermore, it clones the Paper-Makefile repository and the style-check repository from github.
An initial paper.tex file is generated and committed to the papers git repository. You can rename it or generate a new one.
Important
It is best to divide your paper in several tex files, e.g. for each chapter a single file. Put these files in a subdirectory, otherwise the Makefile will treat each TEX file as one paper.
The Makefile was created during my early days in scientific research. I needed an easy way to create and manage papers. I did not want to recreate everything from scratch for every new idea.
I started to manage all my images, acronyms and bibliography in individual git repositories and each of my papers is a git repository of its own.
- make
- git
- wget
- convert
- inkscape
- grep
- sed
- latexmk
- pdflatex
- bash
- create a new directory for holding your paper (mkdir )
- Download the example Makefile from the Paper Makefile repository
- Edit the Makefile and adapt the repository locations to your needs.
- run
make init - rename paper.tex to your liking and start writing
| make target | description |
|---|---|
| init | initialize the directory for use with the Paper Makefile |
| help | display all available targets |
| all | create PDFs from all TEX files in the directory. This is the default target. |
| blind | same as all but blind the authors for review |
| update | update all git repositories |
| check | use the style-check.rb script to check all used TEX files for styles |
| add-ieee | download IEEEtran style and add the cls file |
| remove-ieee | remove the IEEEtran style |
| clean | clean up all generated files |
| dist-clean | do a clean and remove all repositories |
| < name >.tex | create a TEX file for a new paper |
If you extend the Makefile to your needs please send me a pull request, so i can advance this Makefile.
The Paper Makefile is licensed under GPLv2.