From 6e3c50892f6d299baf253f675e14816c15b359e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kennyballou <kballou@onyx.boisestate.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:41:54 -0600
Subject: Add clean method to tex module

---
 docs/source/buildreference.rst |  7 +++++++
 xnt/build/tex.py               | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/source/buildreference.rst b/docs/source/buildreference.rst
index eae9601..2cabe1f 100644
--- a/docs/source/buildreference.rst
+++ b/docs/source/buildreference.rst
@@ -127,3 +127,10 @@ pdflatex
 
     Where *document* is the master tex file of the document and *path* is the
     full or relative path to exectue `pdflatex` in.
+
+.. _xnt.build.tex.clean:
+.. function:: clean(path="./", remove_pdf=False)
+
+    Clean up generated output files of `pdflatex` and similar. Currently, the
+    function removes `out`, `log`, `aux`, `toc`, `tol`, `tof`, `tot`, `bbl`,
+    and `blg`. Conditionally, it will remove the generated `pdf` as well.
diff --git a/xnt/build/tex.py b/xnt/build/tex.py
index 1cd20e3..6249edf 100644
--- a/xnt/build/tex.py
+++ b/xnt/build/tex.py
@@ -56,3 +56,20 @@ def pdflatex(document,
     error_codes.append(pdf(draftmode=False))
     os.chdir(cwd)
     return sum(error_codes)
+
+def clean(path="./", remove_pdf=False):
+    """Clean up generated files of PDF compiliation"""
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(path)
+    xnt.tasks.rm("*.out",
+                 "*.log",
+                 "*.aux",
+                 "*.toc",
+                 "*.tol",
+                 "*.tof",
+                 "*.tot",
+                 "*.bbl",
+                 "*.blg")
+    if remove_pdf:
+        xnt.tasks.rm("*.pdf")
+    os.chdir(cwd)
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