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rail support #107

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Rail is an utility to create syntax diagrams for latex (see: 
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/rail ) The idea is to include the code 
of these diagrams using \begin{rail} ... \end{rail} and then as the bibtex way 
we need to run "rail <filename without extension>" after the latex command for 
the generation of the rao file. I perform this with the following makefile 
excerpt:

default: rail

RAIL            ?= rail
RAIL_DEFAULT_OPTIONS    := 
files.rai       := $(wildcard *.rai)
RAIL_INPUT      := $(files.rai:.rai=)

.PHONY: rail
rail:
    $(RAIL) $(RAIL_DEFAULT_OPTIONS) $(RAIL_INPUT)

Now could be nice if we can integrate this on the latex-makefile in order to 
have a proper clean (for rai and rao files) and default goals but I'm not 
expert with advanced Makefile stuff. Reading the help I found I can include 
that code on the ini file however I'm cannot manage it without running the make 
twice and the rail is always executed. Maybe some hints could be useful on the 
documentation to add rail or another tool inside latex-makefile without 
creating an issue.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jrbalder...@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2010 at 3:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This is going to be non-trivial, because the .rai file is generated by latex, 
and then rail has to be run on it to create the .rao file, and then latex has 
to be run *again*.  Trying to define this in make dependency chain syntax makes 
me want to cry.

I will look into it, but it isn't a super high priority for me right now, since 
there are other basic functionality bugs that need fixing and I have no help.

Original comment by shiblon on 31 Dec 2010 at 7:41