>It's perhaps fine in "drafts" to accept the presence of incorrect .aux >file information, especially if this facilitates speed. But I would >add reason 2A) for using \include: To produce a partial document >that is identical to part of the whole document. I think there are a >lot of applications where this is a common need. For example, if you just want to print one article of a journal issue. But it seems me that this idea with turning off the typeset output (mentioned in Knuth's TeX-book) would be a simple solution, that is, relatively easy to implement with reliable output results. Perhaps the two ideas can be combined: Instead of having a command \include causing the pagebreak, one has a command \partition, that allows one to skip forward in the typesetting process; then only use \input. (So \partion\input would be equivalent to \include.) Hans Aberg * AMS member: Listing <http://www.ams.org/cml/> * Email: Hans Aberg <[log in to unmask]>