[OS X TeX] !TEX root

[Murray Eisenberg]

It seems you have to enter manually in each of the _copy_ files 1.tex. 2.tex. ... , the number of pages up to and including the last page of the preceding chapter. So then if you edit a prior chapter, you have to go back and change the value of "number" in each of the _copy_ files of the following chapters.

Is there some nice way to update the number-of-pages-up-to-now values automatically whenever you process a preceding chapter?

> On Jul 16, 2023, at 2:28 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at freemathtexts.org> wrote:
> 
> As far as that goes, I prefer my own, simple minded, approach: 
> 
> In the whole book folder, there is only
> — a folder that contains the graphics in the format of the graphics app.
> — a folder that contains the pdfs thereof to be included in the text.
> — a folder “StyleSheets” that contains the Preamble, the GraphicPaths, and such files as definitions of tcolorboxes.
> —a folder that contains:
> 		—a folder called Text-contents that contains the files called 1.tex, 2.tex … containing the text of each chapter, 
> 			    Each of these text files consists of:
> 		%!TEX root = ../\jobname.tex 
> 		%!TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk 
> 		\chapter{The Name Of The Chapter}
> 		\ChapterToc
> 		Followed by the text of the chapter.	
> —for each of the above text files, a copy, also called 1.tex, 2.tex …, of the single following file:
> 		% !TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk \documentclass[11pt]{book} 
> 		\usepackage{../StyleSheets/Preamble} 	
> 		\usepackage{../StyleSheets/GraphicsPaths} 
> 		\begin{document}
> 		\addtocounter{chapter}{\jobname-1} (To get the Chapter Number the same as in the whole book.)
> 		\addtocounter{page}{number} (To keep the pages numbers the same as in the whole book.)
> 		\input{Text-contents/\jobname}
> 		\printindex
> 		\end{document}
> 	—a single file for the whole book which consists of:
> 				% !TEX TS-program = pdflatexmk  
> 				\documentclass[11pt]{book} 
> 				\usepackage{../StyleSheets/Preamble}
> 				\usepackage{../StyleSheets/GraphicsPaths}
> 				\begin{document}
> 				         \toc
> 					 \input{Text-contents/1}
> 					 \input{Text-contents/2}
> 					...
> 					\printindex
> 				\end{document}
> 
> So, the only files I actually open to work are the text file(s). 
> 
> Clicking on either one of the two tex files for a chapter will open both together with the pdf of that chapter so I "can edit and typeset the subfiles by themselves” which indeed “can be much faster and is better for your own mental focus.” and “Of course [I] can also typeset the entire document” by typesetting that single file for the whole book.
> 
> 

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