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

[Andrew Perrin]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Douglas Kojetin wrote:

> 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!

If you're willing to share, I'd appreciate seeing the solution to this. I
don't know make, so don't use makefiles, so my usual solution is to create
a preamble.tex file, then the main document is:

\input{preamble}
\include{...}
\end{document}

but that still requires some fiddling to LaTeX just particular chapters; I
end up either having lines in those chapters that are commented out when
running the whole book, or alternatively using shell files (i.e., files
with only one \include{} in them), or sometimes using \includeonly. None
of these is optimal!

ap

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