[pdftex] Typesetting a paper collection

[Wilson, Peter R]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Lie Hetland [mailto:magnus at hetland.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 7:31 PM
> To: pdftex at tug.org
> Subject: [pdftex] Typesetting a paper collection
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm trying to type set a paper collection -- basically a book-like
> introductory part prepended to a bunch of articles. I could typeset
> all the articles separately, but putting it all in the same file seems
> nice, since I can get a common page numbering, TOC, index etc.
> 
> Are there any common tools for this sort of thing? The only thing I've
> been able to sniff up so far is bibunit (and chapterbib) for
> typesetting the paper bibliographies... But it seems I'll still have
> to hack things quite a bit to make this work in any reasonable manner.
> (E.g. hack the headings for the paper-chapters.) Also, I can't get
> bibunit to work with harvard.sty (although it may just be that I can't
> get bibunit to work, period :])
> 
> If nothing else, can I include multi-page pdf files in pdflatex? (I
> guess I could always just use a standard pdf file concatenation
> tool...)
> 
> Any pointers would be appreciated.

    There is the combine class. I have not tried it with pdflatex but it
works for latex.

Peter W.