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How to join two or more external .tex file using another .tex file and then compile?
Suppose I have two tex files file1.tex and file2.tex. I want to join them in another tex file. I have tried to do this with the following one :
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
...
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Include file with preamble to another tex file
I have two files:
paper.tex with text, title, and full preamble with authors and so on.
It compiles successfully.
The second file (B) has also a full preamble with title, authors, little text.
It ...
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Read authors from file
At our university, we students write a lot of summaries in LaTeX. We have the convention of adding a CONTRIBUTORS.txt file to the repository containing the document code, which lists all contributors ...
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0answers
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Loop to include multiple files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to iterate through the name of files in a folder
I would like to include all the *.tex files from a directory in a document.
To avoid me having to add manually the ...
8
votes
6answers
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How can I '\input' a file without getting the implicit newline?
Intro
I'm working on a lightweight package that allows you to put any content (typically LaTeX code) in an environment, then use that content multiple times, each time scanned separately, so you can ...
3
votes
1answer
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Include one TeX file into another
I have main.tex file with:
\documentclass[]{report}
\begin{document}
\input{filename.tex}
\end{document}
Let say filename.tex have the following content:
\begin{abstract}
text
\end{abstract}
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3
votes
2answers
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Is it possible to create a LaTeX preamble “header”?
Is it possible to create a header in LaTeX containing my usual preamble, functioning similar to a header in C? Specifically, can I write a text document (or something similar) with the preamble that I ...
3
votes
1answer
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Including a .bib file with \input does not work
In the following simple document, the bibliography does not work :
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}
\usepackage{inputenc}
\inputencoding{utf8}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
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3
votes
2answers
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Generating a single TeX file by merging different TeX files
I have a main TeX file which inputs many other TeX files i.e. for example
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\input{input1.tex}
\input{input2.tex}
\input{input3.tex}
\end{document}
Let's call ...
2
votes
2answers
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Disable including of system files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I safely compile other people's LaTeX documents?
I've got a Linux server that is rendering LaTeX documents, I want to disable the access of LaTeX to system ...
13
votes
3answers
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Need help creating a custom aux file read/write routine to suit my needs
I require two new commands, \createreference and \citereference, to work with. They should work as shown in the following examples:
\createreference{john}{John Q. Citizen} should write the text “John ...
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1answer
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\input only part of a file using catchfilebetweentags package
I would like to include only a part of a .tex file into a different .tex file. The part I want to include is delimited by some comment tags, as it is used by catchfilebetweentags package.
I tried the ...
5
votes
1answer
992 views
Including all files within a directory [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to iterate through the name of files in a folder
Using \input{filename}, I can input a file canned "filename.tex". I have a directory containing all of the files I ...
9
votes
2answers
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How to avoid automatic .tex extension in filenames?
I am in an mildly unfortunate situation in which, because of the way I prepared the files automatically, I ended up with a file to be attached but also another file with the same name but ending in ...
9
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2answers
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Create list of all external files used by master LaTeX document?
Is there an easy way to create a list of all external files (complete path) which are used by a LaTeX document (and its "sub-documents") by
\input
\include
\includegraphics ?
(may I have forgotten ...
3
votes
3answers
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Can i automatically load chapters and sections based on the filesystem?
I was interested in knowing if i can load chapters and sections of my book based on the filesystem. For example:
Chapter 1/
Section 1.tex
Section 2.tex
Section 3.tex
Chapter 2/
Section 1.tex
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7
votes
2answers
495 views
Space inserted after “\input” call
I've noticed a significant issue with the \input command, it seems. For some reason, I can't seem to prevent it from adding a space after it reads its input. Even if there is no newlines or spaces ...
11
votes
1answer
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How do I create a macro which reads the content of a file when the macro is defined?
I am trying to do something like:
\newcommand{\sometext}{\input{somefile.txt}}
This works, but requires inputting the file every time the macro is used in the document.
I would like to know a way ...
9
votes
3answers
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Make newlines expand to custom command
I am making a guest list which I will print on a sticker sheet, cut them out, then stick them to envelopes. This means that each guest/guest group will have a bounding box drawn around it as a cutting ...
8
votes
1answer
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How to make \lstinputlisting applicable to file paths with spaces?
I am using the listings package and the path to the source code contains some spaces.
For example, the path can be /some dir/sub dir/file 1.txt and
\lstinputlisting{/some dir/sub dir/file 1.txt} does ...
