[texhax] General Advice on Combining Documents for a Thesis

[Thomas Jacobs]

Ron,

Thanks very much for the reply and references.

Tom

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/OSELS/NCPHI)
<rjf2 at cdc.gov> wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 01:55:16 +0200
>> From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
>> To: ThomasJacobs at gmail.com
>> Subject: Re: [texhax] General Advice on Combining Documents for a
>>       Thesis
>> On 28 May 2010 Thomas Jacobs wrote:
>>
>>  > I am a doctoral student in Finance where the practice is to write
>>  > three papers (not necessarily related) and combine them into a
>> >  thesis.
>>  >  I have confirmed that combining them as follows is acceptable to
>>  >  the grad college:
>>  >
>>  > Thesis Title Page, Abstract, Table of Contents, Introduction
>>  > Paper 1 Title Page, Abstract, Body, References, Tables, Figures
>>  > Paper 2 Title Page, Abstract, Body, References, Tables, Figures
>>  > Paper 3 Title Page, Abstract, Body, References, Tables, Figures
>>  > Thesis Conclusion
>>  >
>>  > I have been unable to decipher how to do this in LaTeX,
> particularly
>>  > as most web available code skeletons or guides assume a single set
>>  > of references, etc.
>>  >
>>  > When I try to combine them in one TeX file I get errors if I have
>> >  more
>>  > than one document begin and end line and am uncertain how I would
>>  > code the three distinct sets of references.
>
> The minitoc packages may provide what you are looking
> iirc there is a chapter-toc option
>
> see The LaTeX Companion, 2e
> Mittelback and Goossens w/Braams, Carlisle and Rowley
>
> pp 55: shorttoc: summary table of contents
> pp 56: minitoc: multiple tables of contents
>
> http://ctan.org/pkg/minitoc
>
>
> note: this example uses documentclass report, which contains chapters
>
> http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc
> /mtc-ch0.pdf
>
> I remember a previous responder suggested placing the papers in the
> appendix
> which is available in doc-classes book and report.
>
> hth
>
> Ron Fehd the {SAS} macro maven CDC Atlanta GA
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
> Mailing list archives: http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/
> More links: http://tug.org/begin.html
>
> Automated subscription management: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax
> Human mailing list managers: postmaster at tug.org
>



-- 
Thomas Jacobs