WinEdt assign hotkey or icon to compile project

Question

I have several files open in winedt that are all related in a sort of project. I have the main file that includes the other files.

Is there any way to set it up so when I compile any one of the files it compiles the main one instead(and saves the others)? I don't mind hard coding the file names if necessary.

I'd like to have a custom icon for this so that any time I'm working on a large multifile project I can modify the icon to compile the main file.

Answer 1

WinEdt requires one to use \include for it to know the included files to the main target file. If you use spaces in your includes then it will break tex. A work around is to wrap include to insert \space for spaces:

Here is a lua function that will convert the filename to something tex will recognize properly:

function tex.ConvertToSpace(str)
    str = string.gsub(str, " ", "\\space ")
tex.print('\\incfile{"'..str..'"}')
end

And here is a modification of the \include command that will allow WinEdt to work properly:

\let\incfile\include
\renewcommand{\include}[1]{\directlua{tex.ConvertToSpace("#1")}}

Simply call it like you would normally

\include{My filename with spaces}