Index: doc/theses/thierry_delisle/Makefile
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--- doc/theses/thierry_delisle/Makefile	(revision 728df66bde6df9b1ca4ad068be30ea89605f46a3)
+++ doc/theses/thierry_delisle/Makefile	(revision e76bd39e8180f90ceda3cbab1ae87e29d3273deb)
@@ -122,4 +122,15 @@
 	fig2dev -L pstex_t -p $@ $< > $@_t
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Tools to generate png files
+# to create a png we create a pdf and convert it to png
+%.png : build/%.pstex figures/%.tex
+	echo ${basename $@}
+	${LaTeX} figures/${basename $@}.tex
+	dvips build/${basename $@}.dvi -o build/${basename $@}.ps
+	ps2pdf build/${basename $@}.ps
+	convert -negate ${basename $@}.pdf $@
+
+# creating a pdf of a figure requires generating some latex that just includes the figure
 figures/%.tex: build/%.pstex
 	echo -n 	"\documentclass[preview]{standalone}\n" 	\
@@ -134,11 +145,4 @@
 			"\end{document}" > $@
 
-%.png : build/%.pstex figures/%.tex
-	echo ${basename $@}
-	${LaTeX} figures/${basename $@}.tex
-	dvips build/${basename $@}.dvi -o build/${basename $@}.ps
-	ps2pdf build/${basename $@}.ps
-	convert -negate ${basename $@}.pdf $@
-