is there a fast way to pull all \include{} files into the master document?

turn this:

master.tex:
{preamble}
\begin{document}
\include{a}
\include{b}
\include{c}
\end{document}

a.tex:
<contents of a>

b.tex:
<contents of b>

c.tex:
<contents of c>

------
into this:

master.tex
{preamble}
\begin{document}
<contents of a>
<contents of b>
<contents of c>
\end{document}

I know I can use copy/paste, but is there a latex function or method to do this in one go?

What editor are you using? Emacs has "include-file" bound to "C-x C-i". It's better than copy and paste. If you would really rather have the text there than use \include, you could do that, however that's just a variant of copy/paste.

Unless you're already dedicated to vi, I would strongly recommend Emacs/XEmacs with AUCTEX. Jed also has a LaTeX mode.

Joel

I mostly use kile, or any other editor (PCTeX, or even pico) when I am not by my own computer. I used include to make the file easier to manage when putting together, but I need to send the project to another person, and 1 file is simpler to deal with than 10+.

Do you like this one?

In vim you could also read a file where you wanted it included, using :r <filename>. Since you are only doing this once for the file you are sending, if I were you I would use emacs or vim for assembling the file you want to send. We aren't saying you should use vim or emacs to write your documents.

For kile, you could open the chapter files in another tab, use CTRL-A to select everything and then copy.

You could also cat the chapters together.
Ex: cat chapter1.tex chapter2.tex chapter3.tex ... >allchapters.tex

Then you could use cut and past only once to include them where you want.


A zip or tarball could be used as well to package the files. If this is a paper you are submitting they may have instructions on what they require.

I don't know of any pure latex solution to output a "post include" latex file. But you probably know latex much better than I do. A search on the CTAN site might turn up a pure latex or tex solution.

That's true, however I think you should at least check out the features of an editor with specific LaTeX modes (in the least). Does Kile have LaTeX modes? (that's a real question). AucTeX (under XEmacs) makes writing documents easier than any word processor ever did for me. Yes, Emacs/Xemacs are cumbersome and vi/m can be daunting, however you stand to gain a lot by considering it.

WHAT I WOULD DO: is concatenate the files like several others have suggested, if you really want all the text in the same file.

However, I use \include all the time, and since the documents I deal with often include figures and other auxiliary files, I would just tar up a directory and send it to somebody else. Remember, if you just tar the files, then they get spit out all over the destination directory. If you tar the directory, it makes a directory for the person untarring it.

Joel