Simple Compile Script for tex files via AutoHotkey

compile-tex.ahk

;Simple Compile Script for tex files.
;Monday, March 16, 2015
;by Brother Gabriel-Marie
;Just a simple script to compile a tex file to pdf; 
;easily modifiable to accomodate multiple scripts in multiple directories.

#SingleInstance,Force
#noenv
fileencoding, UTF-8

;please leave off the file extension
texname = yourPDFnamehere

;set to false to run in batch mode without any console; set to true if you need to debug
hideconsole := false
;set cleanup to false to not automatically delete the .aux files and .log files, etc.
cleanup := true
;-------------------------------------------------------------------

;makes sure our pdf is not already open in Adobe Reader
winclose, %texname%.pdf - Adobe Reader

;compile the text file to pdf
if(texname){
	if(hideconsole){
		runwait, lualatex  --interaction=batchmode %texname%.tex ,,"hide"
	}else{
		runwait, lualatex  %texname%.tex 
	}
	;open the pdf file
	run, %texname%.pdf	
}

if(cleanup){
	;clean up some files we don't need
	filedelete *.aux
	filedelete *.gaux
	filedelete *.log
}