Dear all, I'm writing presentations with large image files. Sometimes I make minor changes (e.g. typos). Is there a way not to recompile all but only some pages after I made my changes? In presentations I only have separate pages (no index, numebr of pages, etc) Thanks -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle@unito.it
On 2/21/06, andrea valle wrote:
Dear all, I'm writing presentations with large image files.
Do you have images in PDF or in some other format? Including PDF is much faster than including bitmap images.
Sometimes I make minor changes (e.g. typos).
Is there a way not to recompile all but only some pages after I made my changes?
If you mean "can I recompile only page 3 and 4 out of my 100-page book and get the whole document" that answer is no I think. But there are other ways.
In presentations I only have separate pages (no index, numebr of pages, etc)
In such cases I usually split files and include them in a "master file", so that I can quickly and easily comment things out. \starttext \input chapter-one \input chapter-two \stoptext A more fancy way is to use projects/envionments/products/components. You can then compile separate chapters or all chapters at once without the need to change a single line in the source. They're described at the beginning of cont-eni.pdf. I wanted to ask something about projects/products in a new thread (I didn't notice how great they are until some days ago), but since I'm already talking about them here: Data about chapters, sections, references, ... are written into an auxilary file and have to be processed first before references, indexes, TOCs can work properly anyway: would it be possible to have an option not to process the auxilary files of single products but those of the master document (ie. of project) when compiling single products, so that cross-referencing, section numbering, ... would remain the same as if the whole project was processed together? Thanks, Mojca
If you mean "can I recompile only page 3 and 4 out of my 100-page book and get the whole document" that answer is no I think. But there are other ways.
I suspected.
Well, you also have texmfstart newtexexec.rb --pfdcombine | copy | select | trim I don't know how exactly to use them (to hans: lines 351-359 in newtexexec.rb, "def copyortrim" seem to be broken a bit - wrong number of arguments), but I guess that you could combine parts of your document together again this way (I wouldn't use this approach however). But what's wrong with using modular approach (to compile just the chapter or section you're currently working on, so that it compiles fast enough and you can fix bugs, and then compile everything together when you need the whole document)? You don't need to change a single line if you compile separate chapters or if you compile everything together. Except that you might need to split the document in separate files (using projects/products is really a great thing). If you don't want to split your document, you can also use modes: \starttext \startmode[everything] \enablemode[chapter1] \enablemode[chapter2] \stopmode \chapter{Introduction} \startmode[chapter1] \chapter{Chapter A} \stopmode \startmode[chapter2] \chapter{Chapter B} \stopmode \stoptext Then you can compile the document with texexec --mode=chapter1 filename or texexec --mode=chapter1,chapter2 filename or texexec --mode=everything filename Mojca
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