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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Giorgos Keramidas
> Sent: Saturday, 13 October 2007 12:46 AM
> To: Aryeh M. Friedman
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: batch conversion of TeX
>
> On 2007-10-12 09:44, "Aryeh M. Friedman"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Those who have followed my openoffice to TeX conversion
> know I am brand
> > new to TeX and want to know how to do the following conversions
> > (hopefully via some non-interactive process [eg. Make files]):
> >
> > TeX-->plain text
> > TeX-->HTML
> > TeX-->PDF
> > TeX-->PS
>
> I usually start by writing something like this in a Makefile:
>
> DOC = foo
> SRC = $(DOC).tex
> PDF = $(DOC).pdf
>
> PDFLATEX = pdflatex
>
> all: $(PDF)
>
> $(PDF): $(SRC)
> $(PDFLATEX) $(SRC)
> $(PDFLATEX) $(SRC)
>
> The two runs of $(PDFLATEX) are necessary to get cross-references
> correct in documents with internal cross-references.
>
> There are other tools, like texindex(1) which you may want to
> throw into
> the mix. The TeX toolchain is described in detail in the
> documentation
> which is available online at CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX Archive
> Network). It may be interesting for you to at least skim through the
> docs available at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/
>
> All the books available at the `info' directory are useful,
> and many of
> them are excellent examples of what you can do by typesetting
> with TeX.
>
> Some of my favorites are:
>
> * ``Components of TeX''
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/components-of-TeX/
>
> * ``Essential information for writing LaTeX documents''
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/latex-essential/
>
> * ``Making TeX Work''
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/makingtexwork/
>
the latex-mk port handles a lot of these functions
/usr/ports/misc/latex-mk
I uses it for all my docs
make # generates a DVI file and calls a viewer
make ps
make pdf
make html # settable options re single page - multi page
make draft-pdf # overprints DRAFT - use this if you are not using the
# \usepackage{draftcopy} which gives you more
flexibility
make print # spools off to lp
make clean
And there are other available targets for the Make process.
It handles all the multiple passes etc over the LaTeX file(s)
and has a bunch of other capabilities to manage BibTeX stuff, image
management
Tgif, .jpg, .png ..... etc etc
One of my Makefiles
# base document name
NAME= databasedesign
# bib file
BIBTEXSRCS= suite.bib
# Tgif drawings are here
TGIFSRCS= ./tgif
# and the magic is all in here
.include "/usr/local/share/latex-mk/latex.mk"
# End Makefile
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