• Ensured that all notes targets are dependent on figures (if present).

• Added --ignore-missing-args to rsync call for images, as there may not be any!

• Switched to rsync for deploying files, as I started getting “fchmod” errors when using cp to copy to the SMB share. Not sure why it used to work before, as it appears to be a consequence of the remote file system not supporting Unix-style file permissions. (Not due to different versions of SMB, as it was working with the same version one day, then not the next, and there were no intervening updates. Weird)

• Added rsync to required tools.

• Ensured that IMGDIR can be overridden. ...

• Added IMGDIR to debug output.

• Changed default for PAPER_YEAR to current year.

• Removed paper year from paper-include-path value, as not everyone will have their paper trees organised by year. Safer to assume that the paper root directory exists at the top level of $(ALL_PAPERS_ROOT); use symlinks to achieve this if not.

• Added paper-include-path stylesheet parameter to (Xe)LaTeX rules.

• Removed obsolete LATEX_OPTS variable.

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables for font and paper size; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

• Replaced obsolete LATEX_OPTS variable with hard-coded default options for now (I don’t remember ever providing custom options for the handbook anyway).

• Removed now-obsolete LaTeX option variables; these have been replaced by explicit LaTeX options embedded within the XML document itself.

Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/Otago-InfoSci-Database/Handbook

• Updated documentation.

• Suddenly autoreconf requires the include directory to be explicitly specified with -I. Whuh?

• Added explicit GNU cp, as the --update flag is useful for only copying files when needed.

• Added use of lockfile to ensure that there aren’t multiple copies of sitecopy trying to write to the site state file at once. I’m not convinced that this is actually necessary as there should only ever be one instance running at a time, but corruption of the site state file seems to be more common than it should be. We can always remove it again if it doesn’t help.

• Moved output file specification section to end so that it can use environment variables in the path. (This is also the recommended location for this anyway.)

• Added a PDF to PDF (rename) rule. (Surprised we never had one before now!)

• Added conditionals to enable building of PDF from LaTeX using XeLaTeX.

• Fixed default font size for lectures (should be 11pt, not 12pt).

• Removed course outline as a target, as it’s no longer part of the handbook.

• Fixed bug with whitespace in LATEX_OPTS variable that caused LaTeX to ignore the options entirely.

• Switched to using \def instead of \newcommand for pre-\begin{document} definitions, as it seems safer.

• Fixed stupid bug that caused custom LaTeX options to be ignored.

• Changed the way that LaTeX document class options are handled.

• Corrected comment on LATEX_OPTS variable.

• Added PAPER_YEAR and PAPER_PERIOD to key variables.

• Added formal Unicode support to lecture rules, and to lecture and miscellaneous templates.