Preprocess a .tex file and save it as a new file
I have several .tex files that I would like to share with other people. I've included in them (with the command input) several files with macros that I've written myself. However, I would like to send only a self-contained .tex file.
What I need to do is generating another .tex file where the input command is replaced with the content of the file, pretty much like you would do by calling just the preprocessor in C.
I guess this could be done (relatively) easily with a bit of scripting, but I would like to know if there were a builtin option in a LaTeX compiler.
macros input include
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I have several .tex files that I would like to share with other people. I've included in them (with the command input) several files with macros that I've written myself. However, I would like to send only a self-contained .tex file.
What I need to do is generating another .tex file where the input command is replaced with the content of the file, pretty much like you would do by calling just the preprocessor in C.
I guess this could be done (relatively) easily with a bit of scripting, but I would like to know if there were a builtin option in a LaTeX compiler.
macros input include
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
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no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
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I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the stringinputin verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44
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I have several .tex files that I would like to share with other people. I've included in them (with the command input) several files with macros that I've written myself. However, I would like to send only a self-contained .tex file.
What I need to do is generating another .tex file where the input command is replaced with the content of the file, pretty much like you would do by calling just the preprocessor in C.
I guess this could be done (relatively) easily with a bit of scripting, but I would like to know if there were a builtin option in a LaTeX compiler.
macros input include
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
I have several .tex files that I would like to share with other people. I've included in them (with the command input) several files with macros that I've written myself. However, I would like to send only a self-contained .tex file.
What I need to do is generating another .tex file where the input command is replaced with the content of the file, pretty much like you would do by calling just the preprocessor in C.
I guess this could be done (relatively) easily with a bit of scripting, but I would like to know if there were a builtin option in a LaTeX compiler.
macros input include
macros input include
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
edited Mar 9 at 10:40
JouleV
6,21121650
6,21121650
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
asked Mar 9 at 10:33
Mauro F.Mauro F.
1
1
2
no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
1
I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the stringinputin verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44
add a comment |
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no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
1
I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the stringinputin verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44
2
2
no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
1
1
I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the string
input in verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44
I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the string
input in verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44
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no (there are existing answers on site about this) latex never holds the source in memory or constructs the combined file.
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:40
@DavidCarlisle so you're saying that I have to do it by myself?
– Mauro F.
Mar 9 at 10:41
tex.stackexchange.com/questions/474203/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25713/… tex.stackexchange.com/questions/184152/… etc
– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:42
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I'm saying latex won't do it, but there are lots of tools that do (or claim to do) this for you. (it is trivial to write a few lines of perl to do this on any normal document, writing a general tool that gets it right on any document and copes with the string
inputin verbatim or comments etc is trickier but usually not needed)– David Carlisle
Mar 9 at 10:44