Updated Makefile to use/require the use of rubbber and added the

"titleref" command and "narrow" environment to the head of each paper.

Makefile

@@ -1,27 +1,24 @@
-all: dvi
+#!/usr/bin/make
 
-dvi: text.tex
-	cp text.tex backup.tex
-	latex text.tex
-	latex text.tex
-	latex text.tex
+all: $(patsubst %.tex,%.pdf,$(wildcard *.tex)) 
 
-pdf: dvi
-	pdflatex text.tex
+
+%.pdf: %.png
+	png2pdf -p 1.4 -a $< $@
+
+%.pdf: %.tex 
+	rubber -fd $<
+
+clean: 
+	rubber -d --clean *.tex
+	rm -f *.tmp
+	rm -f figures/*.pdf
 
 viewpdf: pdf
 	evince text.pdf
 
-ps: dvi
-	dvips -f < text.dvi  > text.ps
-
-final: dvi
-	dvips -f < text.dvi > final.ps
-
 spell:
 	aspell -c -t --tex-check-comments -b text.tex
 
-clean:
-	cp text.tex backup.tex
-	rm -f text.{blg,bbl,aux,log,dvi,toc,tex.bak,txt,tex~,ps,pdf} warnings
 
+.PHONY: clean all

text.tex

@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@
 \usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.3in,right=1.3in,top=1.3in,bottom=1.3in]{geometry}
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 
+\newcommand{\titleref}[1]{\textsl{#1}}
+\newenvironment{narrow}[2]{%
+  \begin{list}{}{%
+      \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}%
+      \setlength{\leftmargin}{#1}%
+      \setlength{\rightmargin}{#2}%
+      \setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}%
+      \setlength{\itemindent}{0pt}%
+      \setlength{\parsep}{\parskip}}%
+  \item[]}{\end{list}}
+
 \begin{document}
 
 \pagestyle{fancy}