diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8b4a747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Documents
+*.pdf
+*.html
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4fd80f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+.PHONY: default docs clean
+
+# Adapted from https://dev.to/eugenebabichenko/generating-pretty-version-strings-including-nightly-with-git-and-makefiles-48p3
+DIRTY=$(shell git status --porcelain | head -1 | sed 's/.*/-dirty/g')
+COMMIT=$(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD)
+DATE=$(shell git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:"%Y%m%d")
+LAST_TAGGED_COMMIT=$(shell git rev-list --abbrev-commit --tags --max-count=1)
+LAST_TAG=$(shell git describe --abbrev=0 --tags $(LAST_TAGGED_COMMIT) 2>/dev/null || true)
+PATCH=$(patsubst %,-%-$(DATE),$(filter-out $(COMMIT),$(LAST_TAGGED_COMMIT)))
+VERSION=$(LAST_TAG:v%=%)$(PATCH)$(DIRTY)
+
+default: all
+
+# List of documents to produce from markdown
+DOCUMENTS=README
+
+HTML_DOCS=$(patsubst %,%.html,$(DOCUMENTS))
+PDF_DOCS=$(patsubst %,%.pdf,$(DOCUMENTS))
+
+all: docs
+
+docs: $(HTML_DOCS) $(PDF_DOCS)
+
+%.html: %.md
+	sed 's/%VERSION%/$(VERSION)/g' $^ | multimarkdown -t html > $@
+
+%.pdf: %.md
+	sed 's/%VERSION%/$(VERSION)/g' $^ | multimarkdown -t latex > $*.tex
+	pdflatex $*.tex
+	pdflatex $*.tex
+	-rm $*.aux $*.toc $*.log $*.tex $*.out
+
+clean:
+	-rm $(HTML_DOCS) $(PDF_DOCS)
+
+print-%:
+	@echo '$*: $($*)'
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 78a146d..7e2dd15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1 +1,12 @@
+vi: spell:spelllang=en:tw=72
+Author: Louis A. Burke
+Affiliation: labprogramming.net
+Title: FLIT -- README
+CSS: ./flit.css
+Language: en
+LaTeX Leader: flit-leader.tex
+LaTeX Begin: flit-begin.tex
+LaTeX Footer: flit-footer.tex
+LaTeX Header Level: 3
+
 # Four-Letter Interleaved T(ask/est) Protocol