CMakeUserUseLATEX

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Description

Compiling LaTeX files into readable documents is actually a very involved process. Although CMake comes with FindLATEX.cmake, it does nothing for you other than find the commands associated with LaTeX. I like using CMake to build my LaTeX documents, but creating targets to do it is actually a pain. Thus, I've compiled a bunch of macros that help me create targets in CMake into a file I call "UseLATEX.cmake". Here are some of the things UseLATEX.cmake handles:

• Runs LaTeX multiple times to resolve links.
• Can run bibtex, makeindex, and makeglossaries to make bibliographies, indexes, and/or glossaries.
• Optionally runs configure on your latex files to replace @VARIABLE@ with the equivalent CMake variable.
• Automatically finds png, jpeg, eps, and pdf files and converts them to formats latex and pdflatex understand.

Download

• Click here to get a copy of UseLATEX.cmake.
• Click here to get the documentation UseLATEX.pdf.

Repository

UseLATEX.cmake is currently hosted on github at https://github.com/kmorel/UseLATEX.

There has been some requests to incorporate UseLATEX.cmake into the CMake repository and distribution. Nobody thinks this is a bad idea, but it hasn't yet happened mostly out of laziness. Keep bugging me to show interest. (See the author contact information at the top of UseLATEX.cmake.)

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