Governing Documents

The constitution and bylaws for the ML Paper Reading Group (Augusta University), written in LaTeX.

Document	Source	Output (after build)
Constitution	constitution.tex	build/constitution.pdf
Bylaws	bylaws.tex	build/bylaws.pdf

Building

Pick the Makefile for your platform and copy it to Makefile (which is gitignored, so your choice won't be committed):

# Linux (uses latexmk + a TeX distribution)
cp Makefile.linux Makefile

# macOS (uses tectonic)
cp Makefile.mac Makefile

# Windows (uses tectonic; in cmd/PowerShell: copy Makefile.windows Makefile)
cp Makefile.windows Makefile

Then build:

make all            # build both PDFs into build/
make constitution   # build constitution.pdf only
make bylaws         # build bylaws.pdf only
make open           # build + open the constitution
make open-bylaws    # build + open the bylaws
make clean          # remove build output
make help           # list all targets

Live rebuild while editing

make watch          # rebuild constitution on change
make watch-bylaws   # rebuild bylaws on change

On Linux this uses latexmk -pvc. On macOS it uses fswatch (brew install fswatch). On Windows make watch re-runs make all every second via PowerShell (there is no separate watch-bylaws).

Toolchain

• Linux: latexmk plus a TeX distribution (e.g. TeX Live: sudo apt install texlive-full or a smaller subset).
• macOS: Tectonic (brew install tectonic) — self-contained, downloads packages on demand.
• Windows: Tectonic (winget install TectonicProject.Tectonic or scoop install tectonic) plus a native GNU make (winget install ezwinports.make, scoop install make, or mingw32-make). The Makefile runs its recipes in cmd.exe, so it works from cmd, PowerShell, or Git Bash.

Either toolchain works on either OS; the split just reflects the most common setup for each. CI builds with Tectonic.

Continuous integration

.github/workflows/build.yml builds both PDFs on every push to main and on pull requests, and uploads them as a downloadable artifact named documents. A failed build (e.g. a LaTeX error) fails the check.

License

See UNLICENSE.