This is a collection of makefile components that may be useful.

pdfbase

File: pdfbase.mk

The base file. Will automatically include other modules, provides goals to generate and print pdf files

Variables

• PROJECTS: The projects to build to PDFs (without file extensions)
• LIBRARIES: Other files in this makefile component bundle to include

Goals

• all: Build all in PROJECTS
• print: Print all in PROJECTS
• print-$(PROJECT): Print a single file

R (knitr)

File: R.mk

Goals

• %.Rmd -> %.md: Knit a Rmarkdown file into plain markdown
• %.Rnw -> %.tex: Knit a Rnoweb file into latex with additions

Markdown

File: markdown.mk

Using pandoc, convert markdown files to various other formats

Goals

• %.md -> %.html
• %.md -> %.pdf

Variables

• PANDOC_OPTS: Options to pass to pandoc
• PANDOC_HTML_OPTS: Options to pass to pandoc for the HTML output format
• PANDOC_PDF_OPTS: Options to pass to pandoc for the PDF output format

LaTeX

File: latex.mk

Using latexmk, builds latex documents with proper dependency tracking

Goals

• %.tex -> %.pdf: Build a pdf from any same-named tex file
• clean-% (requires %.tex): Remove temporary build files for a given tex file

Variables

• LATEXMKOPTS: Options to pass to latexmk