Need to produce one tex document in multiple volumes

Question

I have a very large document (1000+pages) that I need to produce as four separate volumes. I'm using Texmaker and TeXLive on a Win7 PC with the book class (too late to switch to memoir), and each chapter is a separate included file with the document structure in the main file. The first 3 volumes contain the main body of the document, and the 4th contains the appendices.

The volumes need to meet the following requirements:

• each volume has its own custom title page

• each volume continues numbering (page nums excluding front matter, section and fig/tab numbering, etc) from the previous

• the "management summary" needs to be in the frontmatter of each volume following the title page

• each volume needs its own 3-level toc and its lists, but also needs an abbreviated 1-level toc (preferably without pg numbers) for all of the other volumes

• the appendixes are their own volume

• bibliography for whole document needs to appear at the end of each volume

I'm new-ish to LaTeX, but this project has been a serious crash course. I'm looking at the volumes and shorttoc packages, but I'm not quite sure how to structure the main document for the repeating sections or custom title pages. To add some complexity, Volume 3 has two parts...

Any suggestion would be very much appreciated... deadline is coming up and I'm still scratching my head trying to figure this out. There doesn't seem to be much in any forums about doing multi-volume productions like this.

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside,final,openright]{book}

\begin{document}

\begin{titlepage}
  % Title page for whole document
  \include{titleAll}
  % Title pages for volumes
  \include{titleV1}
  \include{titleV2}
  \include{titleV3}
  \include{titleV4}
\end{titlepage}

\frontmatter
  % Management summary chapter
  \include{management_summary}

  \tableofcontents
  \listoffigures
  \listoftables

\mainmatter
  % Volume I
  \part{VolumeI}
    \include{chap1}
    \include{chap2}
    \include{chap3}

  % Volume II
  \part{VolumeII}
    \include{chap4}
    \include{chap5}
    \include{chap6}

  % Volume III
  \part{VolumeIII.a}
    \include{chap7}
    \include{chap8}

  \part{VolumeIII.b}
    \include{chap9}
    \include{chap10}

\appendix
  % Volume IV
  \part{Appendices}
    \include{app1}
    \include{app2}
    \include{app3}

\backmatter
  \bibliographystyle{humannat}
  \bibliography{mybiblio.bib}

\end{document}

I'm currently using an \includeonly list to do it (not shown for brevity), but there seems that there should be a better way than what I have set up?

Answer 1

Here is my way:

Edit: Almost complete

We use \evolume and \evolume to reset page numbering

etoc package for table of contents

titletoc package for list of figures and tables

\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,twoside,final,openright]{book}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{etoc}

%---------------------------------------
\usepackage{lipsum,mwe}
\newcommand{\testt}{%
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
\hline 
bla & foo \\ 
\hline 
foo & bla \\ 
\hline 
\end{tabular} 
\caption{Just a table}
\end{table}}
\newcommand{\testf}{%
\lipsum[1]
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics{example-image-a}
\caption{Just a figure}
\end{figure}}
%----------------------------------------

\let\ppcleardoublepage\cleardoublepage
\renewcommand{\cleardoublepage}{%
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\ppcleardoublepage}}
\newcounter{ppage}
\newcommand{\evolume}{\setcounter{ppage}{\value{page}}}
\newcommand{\setpage}{\stepcounter{ppage}%
\setcounter{page}{\value{ppage}}}

\newcommand{\vtableofcontents}[2][subsection]{%
\begingroup
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeI}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeII}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeIII}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeIV}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{#2}{#1}
\tableofcontents
\endgroup}

\newcommand{\vshorttoc}[3][chapter]{%
\begingroup
\etocsetstyle {part}
{}
{\medskip\noindent\relax}
{\bfseries\large\makebox[2cm]{\partname\ \etocnumber\ }%
\etocname\par\nobreak\medskip}
{}
\etocsetstyle {chapter}
{}
{}
{\bfseries\normalsize\makebox[3cm]{\chaptername\ \etocnumber\ }%
\etocname\par}
{}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeI}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeII}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeIII}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{VolumeIV}{none}
\etocsettagdepth{#2}{#1}
\etocsettocstyle{\vspace{1cm}{%
\centering\LARGE\bfseries Contents of volume #3\par\nobreak\medskip}}{}
\tableofcontents
\endgroup}

\newcommand{\vlists}[1]{%
\startlist[#1]{lof}
\printlist[#1]{lof}{}{%
    \chapter*{\listfigurename}%
      \markboth{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
              {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}}
\startlist[#1]{lot}
\printlist[#1]{lot}{}{%
    \chapter*{\listtablename}%
      \markboth{%
          \MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
         {\MakeUppercase\listtablename}}}

\newcommand{\vstoplist}[1]{%
\stoplist[#1]{lof}
\stoplist[#1]{lot}}

\begin{document}
   % DOCUMENT 
\begin{titlepage}
\huge\bfseries
\ \vfil
Document
\end{titlepage}

   % Volume I
\begin{titlepage}
\huge\bfseries
\ \vfil
Volume I
\end{titlepage}

\etocdepthtag.toc{VolumeI}


\frontmatter
  % Management summary chapter
  some test

  \vtableofcontents{VolumeI}
  %\newpage %  and may be a header
  \vshorttoc{VolumeII}{II}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIII}{III}
  {\let\chaptername\appendixname\vshorttoc{VolumeIV}{IV}}

  \vlists{VolumeI}


\mainmatter
\setpage

  \part{VolumeI}
  \chapter{test}
  \section{One}
  \testf
  \subsection{Test On}
  \cite{big}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \testf\testf

\backmatter

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybiblio}{}
\evolume

  % Volume II

\begin{titlepage}
\huge\bfseries
\ \vfil
Volume II
\end{titlepage}

\etocdepthtag.toc{VolumeII}

\frontmatter
  % Management summary chapter
  some test

  \vtableofcontents{VolumeII}
  %\newpage
  \vshorttoc{VolumeII}{I}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIII}{III}
  {\let\chaptername\appendixname\vshorttoc{VolumeIV}{IV}}

  \vstoplist{VolumeI}
  \vlists{VolumeII}

\mainmatter
\setpage

  \part{VolumeII}
  \chapter{test}
  \section{One}
  \testt
  \subsection{Test On}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \cite{small}
  \testf
  \chapter{test}
  \testf\testt

\backmatter

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybiblio}{}
\evolume

  % Volume III

\begin{titlepage}
\huge\bfseries
\ \vfil
Volume III
\end{titlepage}

\etocdepthtag.toc{VolumeIII}

\frontmatter
  % Management summary chapter
  some test

  \vtableofcontents{VolumeIII}
  %\newpage
  \vshorttoc{VolumeII}{I}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIII}{II}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIV}{IV}

  \vstoplist{VolumeII}
  \vlists{VolumeIII}

\mainmatter
\setpage

  \part{VolumIII.a}
  \chapter{test}
  \section{One}
  \testf
  \subsection{Test On}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \cite{small}
  \testf

  \part{VolumeIII.b}
  \chapter{test}
  \chapter{test}
  \section{One}
  \testf
  \subsection{Test On}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \cite{big}
  \testt\testt

\backmatter

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybiblio}{}
\evolume 

\appendix
  % Volume IV

\begin{titlepage}
\huge\bfseries
\ \vfil
Volume IV
\end{titlepage}

\etocdepthtag.toc{VolumeIV}

\frontmatter
  % Management summary chapter
  some test

  \vtableofcontents{VolumeIV}
  %\newpage
  \vshorttoc{VolumeII}{I}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIII}{II}
  \vshorttoc{VolumeIV}{III}

  \vstoplist{VolumeIII}
  \vlists{VolumeIV}

\mainmatter
\setpage

  \part{Appendices}
  \chapter{test}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \testt
  \chapter{test}
  \testf

\backmatter

\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mybiblio}{}

\end{document}

One should be careful to the header in frontmatter of volume 2,3 and 4. the header of bibliography continue. So maybe one shoud reset it

Answer 2

Apologies for the long hiatus... deadlines and travel delayed my being able to close out this question & project...

I did try the MWE posted by @touhami, and it did work very well. Had I been starting from scratch building the volumes and chapters &c. and/or if this were likely to be a common sort of project that occurred regularly and needed to be semi-automated... @touhami's solution would be the way to do it, I think.

Unfortunately, the document was already largely built and under deadline pressure. What I ended up doing was pretty much the suggestion by @barbarabeeton, though I did "cheat" and use \shorttoc for the outside volume ToC's.

Thanks for all the suggestions and efforts.