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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
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