A Makefile for Developing Containerized LaTeX Technical Documents

Abstract: We propose a Makefile for developing containerized $\LaTeX$ technical documents. The Makefile allows the author to execute the code that generates variables, tables and figures (results), which are then used during the $\LaTeX$ compilation, to produce either the draft (fast) or full (slow) version of the document. We also present various utilities that aid in automating the results generation and improve the reproducibility of the document. We release an open source repository of a template that uses the Makefile and demonstrate its use by developing this paper.