My most amazing Makefile for CL papers
Automation of stuff that does not need to be automated at all is one of my most
favorite procrastination activities. As an experienced (and most of the time
unsuccessful) submitter to conferences organized by ACL (ACL, NAACL, EACL,
EMNLP), I spent a lot of procrastinating time improving the Makefile compiling
the papers.
Here are few commented snippets from the Makefiles. Hopefully, someone finds that
useful.
The normal LaTeX stuff
I compile the paper using latexmk.
main.pdf: $(FILES)
latexmk -pdflatex="$(LATEX) %O %S" -pdf -dvi- -ps- -halt-on-error main
I keep the dependencies in variable FILES, so I can use it in multiple
targets without recompiling the paper over