LaTeX-Mk-2.1 Released

December 28, 2010. LaTeX-Mk version 2.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release.

• Fixed a bug in the quoting of lgrind related variables. The result is that the clean target didn't quite work right.
• Improved quoting in the latex-mk script to better handle the case of a file name with spaces in it.

LaTeX-Mk-2.0 Released

April 5, 2010. LaTeX-Mk version 2.0 has been released. This is a bug fix release.

• Added support for the bibunits package.
• Fix a bug when exporting xfig figures to pdf (they were exporting to postscript instead).
• No longer install the .dvi or .ps versions of the manual.
• Fix a bug where PDFLATEX_FLAGS wasn't being properly used.

LaTeX-Mk-1.9.1 Released

August 27, 2007. LaTeX-Mk version 1.9.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release.

• Fixed a bug in the clean target when METAPOST is in use.

LaTeX-Mk-1.9 Released

June 15, 2007. LaTeX-Mk version 1.9 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Added support for per-document DVIPS_FLAGS and DVIPDFM_FLAGS.
• Avoided the use of hardcoded csh in some scripts.
• Removed claims of a BIBTEX_ENV variable in the documentation. It didn't do anything.
• Added METAPOST support.
• Fixed a bug when using BibTeX and PDFLaTeX at the same time.
• Added glossary support.
• Fixed a bug with GNU make draft output.
• Put the actual installation prefix into the manual.
• Avoid a case which caused the testsuite to hang.
• Expanded the testsuite and fixed some bugs in the testsuite.
• Fix a bug in cleaning xfig and tgif output.

LaTeX-Mk-1.8 Released

June 22, 2006. LaTeX-Mk version 1.8 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Fix a syntax error in the latex-mk script which showed up with some shells.
• Fix a bug in the latex-mk script where some of the ".old" files that are used for determining when to re-run various tools were not being cleaned up properly.
• Add a few more files which latex and makeindex may generate to the list of files removed by the clean target.
• Add a testsuite entry for the clean target.
• Improve the makefile testsuite robustness. In particular it now deals with the bmake program having different names (make, bmake, bsdmake, etc).
• Improve and expand the testsuite for the latex-mk script.

LaTeX-Mk-1.7 Released

June 09, 2006. LaTeX-Mk version 1.7 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Added support for makeindex. Suggested by Antoine Reilles who provided a preliminary patch.
• Added a --help flag to the latex-mk script and documented the script a bit more there. It seems that some users are using the latex-mk script only and not the makefile system. Suggested by Reuben Thomas.
• Added the ability in the latex-mk script to work with a read only current directory and use the TEXMFOUTPUT environment variable to control where the real output goes. Suggested by Reuben Thomas.

LaTeX-Mk-1.6 Released

April 04, 2006. LaTeX-Mk version 1.6 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Fix a syntax error in the (not used yet) ieee-copyout script.
• Fix a bug in the latex-mk script when BibTex is used.
• Add quoting of command names in the BSD makefiles. This will properly deal with pathnames to the programs which contain spaces. Currently GNU make will not properly deal with this.

LaTeX-Mk-1.5 Released

January 28, 2006. LaTeX-Mk version 1.5 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• When using tex2page or HeVeA for html output, do not force the running of LaTeX. With latex2html, LaTeX will still be run because latex2html makes use of the .aux files generated by LaTeX.
• Fixed a bug where if the BibTeX input file was modified LaTeX would be run again but not BibTeX.
• Added a --tex2page mode for latex-mk (the script) which allows latex-mk to run tex2page the appropriate number of times to resolves all references.
• Improve the cleaning of tex2page generated output.
• Added latex.subdir.mk to support recursive builds.

LaTeX-Mk-1.4 Released

October 4, 2005. LaTeX-Mk version 1.4 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Added support for lgrind.
• Added a dist target for creating a distribution archive of all source files.
• Added support for using tex2page for html output.
• When using pdflatex, directly convert tgif and xfig drawings to PDF instead of to encapsulated postscript.
• When using pdflatex, do not create @file{.dvi} files as part of the default target.
• Added a LANDSCAPE variable which when set will add landscape flags to various tools.
• Make the default flag for exporting xfig drawings to encapsulated postscript be -L eps instead of -L ps.

LaTeX-Mk-1.3 Released

May 29, 2004. LaTeX-Mk version 1.3 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Fixed a bug which prevented BibTeX from being run in the case where the source document did not have explicit \cite{} commands but rather used \nocite{}. Bug report #927068.
• Fixed some file names in the examples/ directory to avoid a file name clash on file systems which are not case sensitive. This should fix a long standing bug where latex-mk would not build under cywgin. Bug report #946216.

LaTeX-Mk-1.2 Released

March 21, 2004. LaTeX-Mk version 1.2 has been released. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Fixed a bug which prevented the POST_BIBTEX_HOOK hook from actually doing anything.
• Dropped -Ppdf from the default DVIPS_FLAGS. Users who wish to keep -Ppdf as part of DVIPS_FLAGS can add it to the site configuration file, user configuration file, or project Makefile.
• Added DVIPDFM_ENV variable for running dvipdfm inside a customized environment.
• Preliminary Rich Text Format (RTF) output support. The new rtf target will use latex2rtf to produce an RTF version of your document. Use this when sending your documents to the text-formatter-challenged.
• Fixed a bug where a list of figures, list of tables, and table of contents were sometimes not fully up to date in the final output.
• Added support for using ImageMagick to convert JPEG and PNG files to EPS for inclusion in a document.

LaTeX-Mk-1.1 Released

June 15, 2003. LaTeX-Mk version 1.1 has been released. This is the "HTML Support" release. The significant changes/additions over the previous version are:

• Support for HTML output. Either LaTeX2HTML or HeVeA may be used.
• Fixed a bug where bibtex was not run sometimes when it needed to be run. This problem showed up with some versions of LaTeX.
• Added a POST_BIBTEX_HOOK variable which specifies a program to be run after a BibTeX run. This gives users the ability to insert an additional processing step if desired.

LaTeX-Mk-1.0 Released

February 26, 2003. LaTeX-Mk version 1.0 has been released. This release adds support for using dvipdfm for generating PDF output directly from the DVI files as well as support for using PDFLaTeX. In addition, a testsuite of over 50 checks on the makefile code has been added resulting in the elimination of a handful of bugs. This should prove useful going forward as more tests are added and as a means for regression testing.

LaTeX-Mk-0.9.1 Released

October 29, 2002. LaTeX-Mk version 0.9.1 has been released. This is a bug fix release. This release fixes some problems found when using GNU make. This version of LaTeX-Mk requires GNU make version 3.80 or higher if you are using GNU make. As before, a BSD compatible make program can be used. In addition, per-document Xfig dependencies have been added. Somehow this slipped through the cracks with the previous release.

As always, bug reports can be filed on the LaTeX-Mk Sourceforge Project Page. Feature requests will be rolled into future major releases and minor releases will be reserved for bug fixes.

LaTeX-Mk-0.9 Released

October 9, 2002. LaTeX-Mk version 0.9 has been released. This is the first public release of LaTeX-Mk. Please try it out and let me know how it works out. There are forums on the LaTeX-Mk Sourceforge Project Page where you can leave comments, ask questions of other users and file bug reports. I can't promise a quick response, but I will try and look at each report.