Makefile for compiling latex documents

Makefile

target = paper

.PHONY: ${target}.pdf all clean

all: ${target}.pdf

# CUSTOM BUILD RULES

# In case you didn't know, '$@' is a variable holding the name of the target,
# and '$<' is a variable holding the (first) dependency of a rule.
# "raw2tex" and "dat2tex" are just placeholders for whatever custom steps
# you might have.

%.tex: %.raw
	./raw2tex $< > $@

%.tex: %.dat
	./dat2tex $< > $@

${target}.pdf: ${target}.tex
	latexmk -pdf -pdflatex="pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode" -use-make ${target}.tex

clean:
	latexmk -CA

# Credit: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/40738/how-to-properly-make-a-latex-project