[texhax] optionally compiling parts of a document

[Neal H. Walfield]

Hi, Uwe,

At Sun, 2 Dec 2012 22:49:24 +0100,
Uwe Lück wrote:
> It seems to me that you are confusing \include with \input, 
> trying to issue \include conditionally. Instead, you still must issue 
> \include for /each/ "segment" (chapter). What to "actually include" 
> is controlled by \includeonly. So your "segment" macro only should 
> determine the file name. Separately from that, you must transform 
> \segmentsToInclude into the proper input for the \includeonly macro, 
> which must happen in the document preamble already.

The reason that I use \include is that I want to use the .aux files of
the not included files.  So, you are right: I need to unconditionally
use \include and use \includeonly to control what gets included.

Unfortunately, \includeonly needs to be issued before the files are
\included.  Right now, I only know the names when the segments are
encountered.  I need to rethink my approach.  Perhaps I should just
steal the .aux inclusion machinery.

FWIW, replacing the use of \include with \inputdoesn't help.  I still
get an infinite recursion.


Thanks for your help!

Neal