dhiren modi wrote:
> I need some help regarding child documents. I am trying to insert a child
> document, which has landscape page set-up, while the main document is
> portrait. If I output the dvi file, it modifies the format of the child
> document also to portrait. My understanding, from reading the extended
> features documentation, is that if I select "Don't typeset" option, I can
> get the output as I want it.
No, "don't typeset" means that this child document is not typeset at all. It
is the equivalent to LaTeX's \includeonly. It is useful when you want to have
a look at certain chapters only while keeping the references (cross
references etc.) to the suppressed child documents.
> The question is "Where is this option to select "Don't typeset"?
It has been removed, because it never worked correctly. It needs to be
reimplemented properly. Menawhile, the documentation is wrong in this point.
> Thank you for you help. I will appreciate any further discussion in this
> direction.
To your point:
You can use the package "lscape" (or better "pdflcape", which also supports
pdflatex output) to change the orientation to landscape for certain pages.
add to the pramble:
\usepackage{pdflscape}
In the document, add in before and after the child document button in TeX
mode:
\begin{landscape}
[child document button]
\end{landscape}
If you don't have the pdflscape package installed, get it from ctan:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/
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