Latexmk integration

[hongxuchen]

AFAIK, latexmk is also doing automation of latex compiling however is different from what latex-makefile does (as to html, pandoc, python, etc.). Therefore is it possible to integrate that into this project?

[alejandrogallo]

Hi thank you for your interest. I don't know exactly what do you understand by include latexmk to the project. latexmk at the end of the day a perl script and as far as I see this Makefile is a replacement for it.

Maybe the question arises for the need for documentation for this Makefile, the nice feature I use all the time is the target for creating figures in a project, you can check what I mean by going to the tests and testing it for yourself, for example the test build-dir has the following structure

tests/build-dir/
├── config.mk
├── doTest.sh
├── file.bib
├── file.tex
├── images
│   ├── test.asy
│   ├── transitions.tex
└── Makefile

when we hit make we obtain

tests/build-dir/
├── build
│   ├── file.aux
│   ├── file.bbl
│   ├── file.bib
│   ├── file.blg
│   ├── file.log
│   ├── file.pdf
│   └── file.toc
├── config.mk
├── doTest.sh
├── file.bib
├── file.pdf
├── file.tex
├── images
│   ├── build
│   │   ├── transitions.aux
│   │   ├── transitions.log
│   │   └── transitions.pdf
│   ├── test.asy
│   ├── test.pdf
│   ├── transitions.pdf
│   └── transitions.tex
└── Makefile

this means the asymptote files and the tex files in the images directory have been created automatically. As far as I know you don't get this kind of behaviour with latexmk. So for me and people using this makefile, it is a replacement for latexmk that you can simply leave in your working directory for other collaborators also to use.

[hongxuchen]

Thanks for your reply.

What I mean is that you may use latexmk to deal with what it is good at and use latex-makefile as a program to drive it and other tools. Anyway, latexmk has been existing for a couple of years and since it's written in perl it has the potential be more portable. This is only my favor, though.

Best Regards, Hongxu

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:36 PM, alejandrogallo notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi thank you for your interest. I don't know exactly what do you understand by include latexmk to the project. latexmk at the end of the day a perl script and as far as I see this Makefile is a replacement for it.

Maybe the question arises for the need for documentation for this Makefile, the nice feature I use all the time is the target for creating figures in a project, you can check what I mean by going to the tests and testing it for yourself, for example the test build-dir has the following structure

tests/build-dir/
├── config.mk
├── doTest.sh
├── file.bib
├── file.tex
├── images
│   ├── test.asy
│   ├── transitions.tex
└── Makefile

when we hit make we obtain

tests/build-dir/
├── build
│   ├── file.aux
│   ├── file.bbl
│   ├── file.bib
│   ├── file.blg
│   ├── file.log
│   ├── file.pdf
│   └── file.toc
├── config.mk
├── doTest.sh
├── file.bib
├── file.pdf
├── file.tex
├── images
│   ├── build
│   │   ├── transitions.aux
│   │   ├── transitions.log
│   │   └── transitions.pdf
│   ├── test.asy
│   ├── test.pdf
│   ├── transitions.pdf
│   └── transitions.tex
└── Makefile

this means the asymptote files and the tex files in the images directory have been created automatically. As far as I know you don't get this kind of behaviour with latexmk. So for me and people using this makefile, it is a replacement for latexmk that you can simply leave in your working directory for other collaborators also to use.

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[alejandrogallo]

I'll explore the possibility of adding the current Makefile behavior for .tex and .bib compilation as a fallback for systems with no latexmk program installed, I think that would be getting the best from both worlds, of course you are more than welcome to contribute ;) Thank you for your suggestion.