On: Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis

[jterrace]

It's using http://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/ which is a really awesome makefile. It has nice colored output and throws away all the garbage output.

[qznc → jterrace]

At least you can build your own scripts around this stuff. Building LaTeX for me goes like this:

I use vim, change a line, and hit ":w". My git-onNotify [0] script detects a change and issues "make show". The Makefile uses rubber or latexmk to build a pdf, then issues "gnome-open $PDF", which opens the new version in my pdf viewer. If my screen is tiled, the preview on the side just updates.

Essentially, I just save my tex file and wait for the change.

[0] https://github.com/beza1e1/dot/blob/master/bin/git-onNotify