Re: LaTeX

[H. S. Teoh]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:06:08PM -0400, Anurag Agarwal wrote:
> I am looking for a LaTeX builder. Cons has been working very well for me
> for c/c++ projects. Uptill now I have been using make to build tex
> files.  Basically conversion from *.tex -> .dvi -> .ps -> .pdf/html. But
> I have been having a lot of problems with make. Is anyone using cons for
> building LaTeX files? If so, would you be kind enough to share your
> module/builder.
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Here's what I do for building LaTeX files:

Depends $env 'grammar.dvi', 'grammar.toc';
Command $env 'grammar.dvi', 'grammar.tex', 'latex %<';
Command $env 'grammar.ps', 'grammar.dvi', 'dvips -f %< >%>';


Obviously, this can be improved on. Such as a better way of handling .toc
files (currently you need to echo>filename.toc before this will work), and
encapsulating all these explicit dependencies into a sub, so that you can
easily reuse it for large numbers of LaTeX files.


T

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