LaTeX

Installation

To install texlive:

apt install texlive-full latexmk # on Debian
emerge -av app-text/texlive dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra dev-texlive/texlive-humanities dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra dev-texlive/texlive-luatex dev-tex/latexmk # on Gentoo
yay -S texlive-core texlive-bibtexextra texlive-fontsextra texlive-humanities texlive-latexextra latex-mk # on Arch, latex-mk is from the AUR

To manually install single packages place them at:

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/<packageName> # for system-wide installation
~/texmf/tex/latex/<packageName> # for user specific installation

Makefile, when-changed & gitignore

We use the following Makefile to build LaTeX projects

PROJNAME=<name> # TODO
OUT_DIR=out

LATEXC = latexmk
LATEXFLAGS = -outdir=$(OUT_DIR) -pdf -halt-on-error -use-make -file-line-error -shell-escape

all: dir $(PROJNAME).pdf

dir:
	mkdir -p $(OUT_DIR)
	mkdir -p $(OUT_DIR)/chapters

$(PROJNAME).pdf: $(PROJNAME).tex
	$(LATEXC) $(LATEXFLAGS) $<
	cp $(OUT_DIR)/$(PROJNAME).pdf $(PROJNAME).pdf

clean:
	rm -rf $(OUT_DIR)
	rm $(PROJNAME).pdf

open: $(PROJNAME).pdf
	evince $(PROJNAME).pdf

.PHONY: all dir clean
.SILENT: dir clean

The following script automatically rebuilds the project from scretch, when a file in the project folder or the “section” subfolder changes.

apt install inotify-tools # on Debian
emerge -av sys-fs/inotify-tools # on Gentoo
pacman -S inotify-tools # on Arch

#! /bin/bash

path=$1;
paths=$path
[ -d "$path/sections" ] && paths+=" $path/sections"

while inotifywait -q -e close_write,moved_to,create $paths; do
	( cd $path && make clean; make all )
done

Based on your folder structure the following .gitignore is appropriate

out/*
<name>.pdf # TODO

LaTeX

Contents

Installation

Makefile, when-changed & gitignore