TeX typesetting

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A place to share ideas, resources, tips, and hacks for Donald Knuths typesetting software TeX. All variants and formats like OpTeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt are welcome.

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How do you usually organize your source files? (self.tex_typesetting)

submitted 2 years ago by estee to c/tex_typesetting

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I've had projects where it's just one big .tex file including all the macros and content, and projects where there's a whole file hierarchy of chapter subdirectories and layers of \inputs and macro files and... It can sort of get out of hand for me, where it makes sense in the moment and then looking at it a week later it's a puzzling labyrinth of files.

I guess it depends on the nature of the project, but do you have a go-to way that works for you in most cases?

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[–] circuitfarmer 3 points 2 years ago

I had a bunch of different files and \inputs when I wrote my dissertation. Otherwise, I always always have everything in one file. There's not a use case for me where I'm needing to move a bunch of sections around or anything, typically.