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[Murray Eisenberg]

On 27 Jan 2015 18:30:32 -0700, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at Shaw.ca> wrote:
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> On 22Jan2015, at 2:01 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 22 Jan 2015 11:34:36 -0700, Don Green Dragon <fergdc at Shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>> On 30Dec2014, at 10:55 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:
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>>>> For me, breaking into chunks (actually, sections of chapters) helps me organize my work.  I don't use \include, just a master file with lots of \input commands.
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>>> <<snip>>
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>>> What?s the advantage of using \input as opposed to \include?
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>> Actually, I think the advantage is to using \include: Then for a main document that includes many "subdocuments", e.g., chapters in a book, you can from the main .tex source with whatever you want in the preamble, use \includeonly to selectively process only what you're currently working on.
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> The above description is the style that I?ve been using for a long time, but  I see now how \input can be gainfully applied.
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>> In fact, it's not hard to whip up a macro so that when you tex the main document, it prompts you to type in which of the subdocuments to include for the run!
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> In view of the simplicity of modifying the list of `active? subdocuments, do you find the `macro? you allude to advantageous?

When I used a \typein command to provide the argument to \includeonly, it was when I was working on a book with 15+ chapters or other units, and it was often convenient to be able to check the preview of just a couple such units at a time. 

That was quite a few years ago, but even then the Y&Y TeX system I was using was lickety-split, so it was seldom a question of cutting down the source so as to reduce computation time.


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