A Makefile for Latex projects

Makefile

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Author:
#      Ali Bozorgzadeh
# Copyright:
#      Copyright (c) 2024 Ali Bozorgzadeh
# License:
#      The MIT License (see https://opensource.org/license/mit)
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Project structure:
#
# .
# ├── Makefile
# ├── include
# │   ├── chapter1.tex
# │   ├── chapter2.tex
# │   └── chapter3.tex
# └── main.tex
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

INCDIR   := include       # Name of the folder in which files are included/input in main.tex
BUILDDIR := build
SRC      := main.tex      # Name of top level code at the root of the project
INCLUDES := $(wildcard $(INCDIR)/*.tex)
PDF      := document.pdf  # Name of final document

TEXFLAGS  =  -pdf
TEXFLAGS += -dvi-
TEXFLAGS += -output-directory=${BUILDDIR}
TEXFLAGS += -file-line-error
TEXFLAGS += -interaction=nonstopmode


all: $(PDF)


$(BUILDDIR):
	mkdir -p $@


$(INCDIR):
	mkdir -p $@
	

$(PDF): $(SRC) $(INCLUDES) | $(BUILDDIR) $(INCDIR)
	latexmk $(TEXFLAGS) $<
	-ln -fs $(BUILDDIR)/$(<:.tex=.pdf) $@


# Convert to text (text width = 80) (assuming pandoc is installed)
text:
	pandoc $(SRC) --wrap=auto --columns=70 --to=plain -o $(SRC:.tex=.txt)


# Word count (assuming texcount is installed)
wc:
	@texcount -inc $(SRC) \
		| awk -v RS='' '/Sum of files/' \
		| grep 'Words in text' \
		| awk '{print $$4}'


clean:
	@-latexmk -C -output-directory=$(BUILDDIR)


.PHONY: all text wc clean