Re: [Axiom-developer] Some latex packages that may help with multiple individual files in books

[Ralf Hemmecke]

I have once tried "combine". But IIRC it only takes the \usepackage(s) 
from the first file. For the other files \usepackage just absorbs its 
argument and does nothing. So it is not a real solution for me.

When I saw the hyperlink in endpaper.pamhlet that linked to a .dvi file, 
I tried another idea. Basically along the following lines...
Remember I want to combine (crosslink) the documentation of different 
aldor libraries which are each by themselves consisting of several noweb 
files. I think it is doable to compile the first library documentation 
(dvi-1), then use the .aux file from that compilation and use it in the 
compilation of the second library documentation (dvi-2). One would still 
have 2 .dvi files, but if you open dvi-2 and click on a link that refers 
to something in dvi-1, then the dviviewer opens dvi-1 at the right page.
As a user you would not even recognize that these are two files. That 
would be OK for me. And there would be no problem with \usepackage since 
an author could use anything she likes.

Unfortunately, I am not very far with an implementation. What would 
people think about such an approach?

Ralf



On 08/04/2006 02:19 PM, C Y wrote:
> There seem to be two main packages for taking complete individual latex
> documents and combining them into larger ones (if I've missed an
> important one, please let me know)
>
> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combine/
>
> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/subfiles/
>
> I'm thinking combine looks like it might be a good fit for the "combine
> various pamphlets into a book" question, but I have no experience with
> it (yet).  Has anyone here happened to use it?  Does it work fairly
> well?
>
> Cheers,
> CY