AutoLaTeX – Automate generation of large scale LaTeX projects

Au­toLaTeX is a set of GNU Make and Perl scripts that may be used to com­pile LaTeX projects. Au­toLaTeX au­to­mates the com­pi­la­tion pro­cess by call­ing (pdf)la­tex and bib­tex as they are re­quired. It sup­ports pdfla­tex, la­tex, dvips, ep­stopdf and bib­tex. Au­toLaTeX also pro­vides a pow­er­full fea­ture for au­to­matic gen­er­a­tion of the fig­ures that are in­cluded in the LaTeX project: for sev­eral fig­ure sources (xfig, dia, um­brello, png, svg, xmi...) Au­toLaTeX is able to gen­er­ate the ap­pro­pri­ate PDF pic­ture. Au­toLaTeX also sup­ports ps­tex for­mat (from xfig and gnu­plot for ex­am­ple) and dot for­mat (from the Graphviz pack­age).
The use of Au­toLaTeX on the com­mand line is sim­i­lar to GNU Make. Au­toLaTeX should be called with sev­eral tar­gets to run.