tex_rakefile.rb

# Rakefile for building tex file

require "rake/clean"

BASE = "documentname"
TYPE = ".tex"
OUT = ".pdf"
TEXFILE = FileList[BASE+TYPE]
OUTFILE = FileList[BASE+OUT]
BIBTEXCMD = "bibtex"
LATEXCMD = "pdflatex"
TEMP = ["*.aux", "*.bbl", "*.blg", "*.idx", "*.log",
        "*.out", "*.toc", "*.dvi", "*.lot"]

task :default => [:bibtex, :latex, :clean]

desc "compile tex file"
task :latex do
    latex
end

desc "compile literature with bibtex"
task :bibtex do
    latex
    sh %{#{BIBTEXCMD} "#{BASE}"}
end

desc "convert eps to pdf"
task :epsconvert do
  IMAGES.each do |i|
    dir = File.dirname(i)
    file = File.basename(i, ".eps")
    pdffile = dir+"/"+file+".pdf"
    if not File.exists?(pdffile)
      sh %{#{PSCMD} -dEPSCrop #{i} #{pdffile}}
    end
  end
end

CLEAN.include(TEMP)
CLOBBER.include(TEMP, OUTFILE)

# ruby method to compile latex, which can be
# run more than once per rake run
def latex
    2.times do
        sh %{#{LATEXCMD} "#{TEXFILE.to_s}"}
    end
end