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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I also added a Makefile for mine (LaTeX), and it would add the commit hash to the front page (with an asterisk if the repository had uncommitted changes).

So, if I gave a draft to someone and got feedback, I'd know exactly which revision it was.

[–] GarlicToast 6 points 6 months ago

This is brilliant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hey, amazing idea, can you share the code?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Sure thing. This also includes the beamer bit which I used for my defense. It's all pretty hacky but hope it's useful!

#
# Errors aren't handled gracefully (tex doesn't write to stderr, it seems)
# If you encounter errors, use "make verbose"
#
# For small changes (probably those without references), use "make quick"
#
# Thanks to https://gist.github.com/Miliox/4035649 for dependency outline

TEX = pdflatex
BTEX = biber
MAKE = make -s
TEXFLAGS = -halt-on-error
# $(MAIN).log is dumb if we have multiple targets!
SILENT = > /dev/null || cat $(MAIN).log
SILENT_NOER = 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null
EDITOR = vim -p
PDFVIEW = evince
MAIN = main
PRES = presentation
ALL = $(MAIN).pdf
RECURS = media/ manuscripts/
VERSION := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD | cut -c 1-4)$(shell git diff-index --quiet HEAD && (echo -n ' ';git log -1 --format=[%cd]) || (echo -n '* '; date -u '+[%c]'))

all: recurs $(ALL)
pres: $(PRES).pdf
scratch: scratch.pdf

scratch.pdf: scratch.tex
	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)

verbose: SILENT = ''
verbose: $(ALL)

recurs: $(RECURS)
	@$(foreach DIR, $(RECURS), \
		echo "MAKE	(CD)	$(CURDIR)/$(DIR)"; \
		$(MAKE) -C $(DIR) $(MAKECMDGOALS);)
	@echo "MAKE	(CD)	./"

clean:
	@echo "SH	(RM)	Not recursing; 'make allclean' to clear generated files."
	@rm -f *.aux *.log *.out *.pdf *.bbl *.blg *.toc *.lof *.lot *.bcf *.run.xml

allclean: recurs
	@echo "SH	(RM)	A clean directory is a happy directory"
	@rm -f *.aux *.log *.out *.pdf *.bbl *.blg *.toc *.lof *.lot *.bcf *.run.xml
version:
	@echo "SH      (ver) $(VERSION)"
	@echo $(VERSION) > VERSION.tex

nixpages: main.pdf
	@echo "PDF     (pdftk)"
	@pdftk main.pdf cat 1 4-end output final.pdf

quick: $(MAIN).tex version
	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)

$(MAIN).pdf: $(MAIN).tex $(MAIN).bbl all.tex tex/abstract.tex tex/intro.tex tex/appendix.tex tex/some_section.tex tex/some_other_section.tex
	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)

$(MAIN).bbl: $(MAIN).aux
	@echo "BIB	(bib)	$(MAIN)"
	@$(BTEX) $(MAIN) > /dev/null
	
$(MAIN).aux: $(MAIN).tex $(MAIN).bib version
	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)

$(PRES).pdf: $(PRES).tex $(PRES).bbl tex/beamer*.tex tex/slides/*.tex
	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)
	@echo "TEX	(final)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) $< $(SILENT)
$(PRES).bbl: $(PRES).aux
	@echo "BIB	(bib)	$(PRES)"
	@$(BTEX) $(PRES) > /dev/null
$(PRES).aux: $(PRES).tex $(MAIN).bib
	@echo "TEX	(draft)	$<"
	@$(TEX) $(TEXFLAGS) --draftmode  $< $(SILENT)

edit:
	@echo "EDIT	(fork)	$(EDITOR)"
	@$(EDITOR) ./tex/*.tex *.tex

view:
	@echo "VIEW	(fork)	$(PDFVIEW)"
	@$(PDFVIEW) $(ALL) $(SILENT_NOER) &

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I also had some Makefiles in other directories, e.g., for my media/ I had:

MAKE = make -s
RECURS = svgs/

recurs: $(RECURS)
        @$(foreach DIR, $(RECURS), \
                echo "MAKE      (CD)    $(CURDIR)/$(DIR)"; \
                $(MAKE) -C $(DIR) $(MAKECMDGOALS);)
        @echo "MAKE     (CD)    $(CURDIR)/"

all: recurs

clean:

allclean: recurs clean

and for media/svgs/:

SVG_FILES := $(wildcard *.svg)
PDFDIR := ./
PDF_FILES := $(patsubst %.svg,$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf,$(SVG_FILES))

all: $(PDF_FILES)

clean:
        @rm -f $(PDF_FILES)
        @echo "SH       (RM)    Tidying up derived PDFs"

allclean: clean

$(PDFDIR)/%.pdf: %.svg
        @inkscape -T --export-pdf=$@ $<
        @echo "INK      (PDF)   $<"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you!!! I'll see if I manage to make it work for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Makefile in other comments. You'll need something like this on the title page (this assumes you use my Makefile which puts the version in VERSION.tex [that's the literal name of the file, not a placeholder]):

{\bf{\color{red}DOCUMENT REVISION:}} {\color{blue}\input{VERSION}}