[TriLUG] LaTeX gurus: is it possible to ignore lines on 'include'

Douglas Kojetin djkojeti at unity.ncsu.edu
Wed Mar 24 19:40:45 EST 2004


Ah.  Thanks!  I guess I'm cheating in that I don't have a 'makefile' (I 
simply hit 'typeset' in TeXShop).  However, based on your advice, I 
figured out how to modify my main file to include either a single 
chapter or the entire document.  Woo hoo!

Thanks,
Doug


On Mar 24, 2004, at 7:20 PM, David Rasch wrote:

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> you'd do best to make a macro including your formatting directives, 
> and either
> pass it: chapter1.tex (without any formatting or \begin and 
> \end{document}
> directives) or your whole.tex (with the \include{chapter1.tex}).
>
> I typically write a makefile when working with LaTeX to do this 
> building of
> each of the parts or the whole.
>
> David
>
> On Wednesday 24 March 2004 19:09, Douglas Kojetin wrote:
>> I figured I'd send this out to the local LaTeX gurus out there (many
>> thanks for all the previous help!).
>>
>> I'm starting to develop a skeleton for my dissertation text.  I plan 
>> on
>> having a main document that sources my chapter files (using
>> '\include{chapter1}', etc.) so as to keep the main file relatively
>> small.  I'd like to be able to just work with the chapter files
>> individually as I'm working on them, but every once and a while I'd
>> like to be able to compile the entire document to see how it all 
>> looks.
>>
>> This is where I foresee (and have seen) problems.  I have document
>> formatting statements at the beginning of the chapter files that, upon
>> compilation of the entire document (where main.tex uses the \include
>> command to source the chapters), I get the obvious errors due to the
>> document formatting lines appearing after \begin{document} in the main
>> tex file.
>>
>> Is there a way to comment or ... format, somehow ... the
>> document/usepackage(s) in the chapter files so they *are* sourced when
>> the individual files are typeset but *not* sourced when the entire
>> document is typeset (i.e. upon sourcing a file, it would ignore any
>> document/usepackage information)?
>>
>> If it matters, I'm using TeXShop.
>>
>> Many thanks (again)!
>> Doug
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