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

Douglas Kojetin djkojeti at unity.ncsu.edu
Wed Mar 24 21:00:56 EST 2004


andrew (or anyone else)-

just curious -- what software do you use to keep track of journal 
articles?  i'd like to get away from Endnote (grumble).

thanks,
doug


On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:07 PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> 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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