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>>>>> "D" == David Carlisle <[log in to unmask]> writes:
D> 2) To speed up
D> processing of drafts as only the `current chapter' need be
D> processed.
D> (2) is not relevant if you are using a class where the
D> individual sections are self contained documents. To just work
D> on section1 you don't need to go \includeonly{section1} you can
D> just go latex section1.tex
Hunh? Like what kind of class is that? Do I misunderstand what you
mean? You can't just go latex section1.tex if it doesn't have a
\documentclass in it. If it does, either you weren't using \input or
\include to include it in the first place, you were using something
like \includex; or you are using a sophisticated LaTeX front-end like
AUCTeX which supplies a header and footer for section1.tex from
somewhere else.
D> processed. 3) To cope with big jobs where running the whole
D> document in one go runs out of memory.
D> So that leaves (3). But (3) is usually a forlorn hope. Often
I agree. The only time I have ever had TeX memory size problems is
doing intensive fiddling with pstricks to cross-shade a large table.
A typical 300+-page document (source2e for example) doesn't tax TeX at
all, and we are about to enter the era of web2c-7 with dynamic memory
allocation.
When I tried the solution of one aux file and saving all the parts'
auxinfo in memory with macros (tag.sto, group.sto). I did some
experimentation and concluded that the extra memory usage was
irrelevant. I don't say this would be so in all applications, of
course, but the result was encouraging.
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