[OS X TeX] Standard preamble

[Simon Spiegel]

On 18.07.2006, at 17:26, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> As I am working on the "magnum opus", because my knowledge of LaTeX  
> is extremely limited, I keep modifying the preamble. But because  
> the magnum opus is made of more and more files, I am having an  
> increasingly terrible time keeping all the preambles the same.
>
> Is there a way each file could have a minimum preamble, say with  
> just a command to use the stuff in a "central" file which would  
> then be the only file I would modify?

How are your files organised? I have a "master file" which basically  
contains only the preamble and which includes the individual chapters  
with \include{}. You can do this even if your files aren't part of  
one single book. Have your preamble (or most of it) in a separate  
file which can re-use with \include{} over and over again.

simon

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