Using AAP with LaTeX

So, after dealing with things other than AAP for some while (Bram: Jos
told me you were concerned), I've decided to try to pick it up again for
compiling my thesis. I need to read the manual again, desperately, since
I've forgotten most stuff already. However, there's a couple of tricks
that I'd like to know about before really starting on this:

Ideally, I'd write:

main.dvi : main.tex $chapter1 $chapter2 $chapter3 $appendix

and be done with it. However, the action required for this is manyfold:

* run "latex main.tex"
* if main.idx has changed, run "makeindex" and then "latex main.tex" again
* if main.toc has changed, run "latex main.tex" again
* ... several more rules like that

Can I do this cleanly? Or is a big icky :action build .dvi default going
to be the only option?



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