[OS X TeX] Standard preamble

[Victor Ivrii]

On 7/18/06, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii wrote:
>
> > On 7/18/06, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Victor Ivrii wrote:
> >> >
> >> > 1) You actually have plenty of independent files which should be
> >> > processed independently.
> >> > Make preamble.tex  and put
> >> >
> >> > \input{preamble.tex}
> >> > instead of preamble of each of them.
> >>  wanted was 1) and I apologize: Rather than just trying, I had
> >> assumed that you couldn't possibly use \include in the preamble. Next
> >> time, I will try first.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > You cannot use \include{} in preamble but you can use \inpit{} there
> > Also in the body \include{} and \input{} work differently (\include{}
> > includes  \clearpage)
>
> Well, for whatever reason and probably accidentally, \include did on my
> testing grounds. The only problem I had was that since the actual parts
> of the book are in different folders, I cannot use a standard
> \include{mypreamble} but have to use
> \include{../FolderPartIsIn/mypreamble} which is not a big deal and since
> Goedde's suggestion voids the issue, this is the way I will be going.
>
> Grateful regards
> --schremmer


Since this is a part of the book, I would suggest a different approach:

Create master.tex

\include{}
in the body

but switch them on/off by

\includeonly{}

in preamble


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