adding a template for homework assignments

assignment_template/Makefile

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+#!/usr/bin/make
+
+all: $(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.tex)) 
+
+# use the following section for Rnw/knitr documents
+# all: $(patsubst %.Rnw,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.Rnw))
+# %.tex: %.Rnw
+#	Rscript -e "library(knitr); knit('$<')"
+
+%.pdf: %.tex 
+	latexmk -f -pdf $<
+
+clean: 
+	latexmk -C *.tex
+	rm -f *.tmp *.run.xml
+	rm -f vc
+	rm -f *.bbl
+	# the following lines are useful for Rnw/knitr
+	# rm -rf cache/ figure/
+	# rm -f *.tex
+
+viewpdf: all
+	evince *.pdf
+
+vc:	resources/vc-git
+
+pdf: all
+
+.PHONY: clean all
+# .PRECIOUS: %.tex