diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 0032ad9..9a65767 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-# Force GitHub to detect the project as Python
+# Treat all Python files as Python
 *.py linguist-language=Python
 
-# Treat HTML files as generated (if any exist)
-*.html linguist-generated=true
-
-# Ignore README, image, and license files from language stats
-README.md linguist-documentation
-*.png linguist-generated=true
-*.jpg linguist-generated=true
+# Treat other files as generated or documentation
+*.md linguist-documentation
+*.png linguist-generated
+*.jpg linguist-generated
+*.gif linguist-generated
 LICENSE linguist-documentation
+
+# Optional: force repo language to Python if all else fails
+*.tex linguist-language=Python