"titleref" command and "narrow" environment to the head of each paper.
-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
-viewpdf: pdf
-       evince text.pdf
+%.pdf: %.png
+       png2pdf -p 1.4 -a $< $@
+
+%.pdf: %.tex 
+       rubber -fd $<
-ps: dvi
-       dvips -f < text.dvi  > text.ps
+clean: 
+       rubber -d --clean *.tex
+       rm -f *.tmp
+       rm -f figures/*.pdf
-final: dvi
-       dvips -f < text.dvi > final.ps
+viewpdf: pdf
+       evince text.pdf
 
 spell:
        aspell -c -t --tex-check-comments -b text.tex
 
 
 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
 
 \usepackage[letterpaper,left=1.3in,right=1.3in,top=1.3in,bottom=1.3in]{geometry}
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 
 \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}
 \begin{document}
 
 \pagestyle{fancy}