> >makes it more convenient for long documents. These conveniences don't > >seem as wonderful in days of more powerful equipment... > > This is one aspect that I have in my mind: Computers are getting so fast > that making a full compile every once in a while does not hurt. I don't know about you people, but my most recent experience was running The LaTeX Graphics Companion (quite a complex book) a million times, while preparing new pages for a reprint. i have quite a fast computer, but it still takes 3 or 4 or 5 minutes to run the whole book, as opposed to 10-20 seconds for an easy chapter. so i want to keep \include, thanks! in addition, having a single place in the master file with the \includeonly is much less error-prone for the editing than commenting and uncommenting a slew of \input lines. not that this invalidates the discussion, but just a vote from a \include lover... Sebastian