Guillaume, Redo will do the same things that make did but better. It'll let you automate the processing of your latex files but you can write the processing code in sh (or any other language of your choosing). If the underlying files change (and your build scripts correctly declare the dependencies), it will incrementally perform the minimal amount of work needed to get the generated files back up to date. If the build scripts themselves change, redo will automatically rebuild the affected docs (something that make won't do AFAIK). If your latex code depends on some outside data, you can bring that in and easily declare the dependencies on it so that when your data changes, only the chapters which depend on that data get rebuilt.
I hope that gets the idea across. * Caveat: redo currently has a few problems with programs that generate multiple files as their output. I am working on a fix for that. -- ________________________ Warm Regards Prakhar Goel LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/newt0311
