[OS X TeX] finding all dependencies of a (La)TeX document

[Ross Moore]

Hello Fernando,

On 22/04/2004, at 1:53 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote:

> I'm looking for any tool that would find all included files and 
> formats that a (La)TeX source file depends to facilitate the creation 
> of self-contained archives that can be recompiled elsewhere. I know 
> that this is impossible in general (TeX is Turing-complete), but a 95% 
> solution would help a lot.
>

Use
     pdflatex -recorder  filename.tex

then look at the resulting  filename.fls .

This tells you each file that has been read during the job.
Add to that  pdflatex.fmt  .

If you want to know which information was read in creating  pdflatex.fmt
then you could find out by using that  -recorder  option when running
a command to rebuild the format.

This should get a long way through such a task.


Cheers

		Ross


> Thanks
>
> Fernando Pereira
> Dept. of Computer and Information Science
> University of Pennsylvania
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