Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!goya!eonwe!jjsf From: jjsf@gmv.es (Julio Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: sccs, tex makefiles, xfig, hints Message-ID: <2358@eonwe.gmv.es> Date: 21 Mar 91 09:28:14 GMT References: <27530@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Organization: Grupo de Mecanica del Vuelo, S.A. (GMV), Madrid, Spain Lines: 26 In article <27530@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes: >Like many of you, I use fig to draw figues, then fig2dev -L latex >to transform the figures to latex. > >In the main document, I'll have entries such as: > > >I recently discovered the wonderful world of implicit rules in makefiles. >The makefile for the current paper I am working on is: > Probably other people are doing this. I have my own basic Makefile that does other things along that line (it defines some 7 suffixes). But, has anyone found a practical, no-mess way to determine how many times to process a file in LaTeX so that crossreferences get right. Usually it is either 1, 2 or 3. Any hints. Up to now, I *touch* the file and make again. This is *ugly*. Any hints? Julio -- Julio Sanchez, GMV SA, Isaac Newton s/n, PTM Tres Cantos, E-28760 Madrid, Spain Ph. +34 1 807 21 85 | jsanchez@gmv.es | Traveller, there is no Fax +34 1 807 21 99 | jsanchez%gmv.es@Spain.EU.net | path; paths are made by Telex 48487 GMEV E | Julio_Sanchez_GMV@EuroKom.ie | walking (A. Machado)