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