SyLeX is a simple build system for LaTeX. It covers what I find to be the main pain points of LaTeX compilation:
- some documents need to be compiled twice (or even thrice)
.aux,.toc,.log, etc... files littered everywhere\includedoesn't handle paths relative to the current file- standalones need separate compilation
Features of SyLeX include:
- double compilation (opt-out), even triple compilation if a bibliography is included
- separate build directory
makeintegration- intuitive syntax to specify the file hierarchy
- built-in support for lazy compilation of standalones
- path expansion to simulate relative paths in
\includeand the like
Clone this repository to /path/to/sylex.
To start a new project, simply type /path/to/sylex/sylex.py init.
sylex.py does not need to be in your $PATH, nor do you need to specify
its position in your project: sylex will clone itself into .sylex/ so
that invocations can be done locally.