Rubber : a LaTeX processing tool

I still have to test it with other .tex files, but I just discovered and tried "rubber", and LaTeX compilation seems to be pretty fast (for an 8 pages document).


It seems that it proposes a tool that compiles and analyses the LaTeX source file to generate either a ps, pdf or dvi, and to run the needed tools : makeindex, bibtex, etc. and all by itself without having to write a complicated makefile.



From "rubber" man pages :

NAME
       rubber - a building system for LaTeX documents

SYNOPSIS
       rubber [options] sources ...
       rubber-pipe [options]

DESCRIPTION
       Rubber  is a wrapper for LaTeX and companion programs.  Its purpose is,
       given a LaTeX source to process, to compile it enough times to  resolve
       all  references,  possibly  running  satellite programs such as BibTeX,
       makeindex, Metapost, etc. to produce appropriate data files.

       The command rubber builds  the  specified  documents  completely.   The
       source files may be either LaTeX sources (in which case the suffix .tex
       may be omitted) or documents in a format Rubber knows how to  translate
       into  LaTeX  (this currently means CWEB or Literate Haskell documents).
       If one compilation fails, the whole process stops, including the compi‐
       lation  of the next documents on the command line, and rubber returns a
       non-zero exit code.

Some Links :

• Rubber official webpage


• Rubber documentation
  
  
• apt://rubber for a direct install.


• Rubber on freshmeat



• ubuntu-fr:LaTeX[French] cf. section "ressources" for some interesting LaTeX links.