General ⇒ Building multiple / alternate versions of a document

[danep]

Hi all

I am interested in producing two different PDF versions of my resume, which I keep in Latex. One version is for web publication and thus should have some info (contact details, GPAs, etc) redacted, while the other version should be pretty much complete. Right now I use a variable (call it "forweb") and conditionals to keep sensitive portions omitted when building for the web. I have to build once with the "forweb" variable set, rename the PDF file produced, and then build again with "forweb" unset. Is there a way to automate this process? In other words, is there a way to produce both versions of the document automatically and simultaneously?

I'm very new to Latex, so go easy on me Thanks for the help.

[kaiserkarl13]

You might try writing a shell script that automatically runs LaTeX twice (once with and once without a particular file included). For example:

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#! /bin/sh
## Shell script

pdflatex twoversions.tex

grep -v auxtext twoversions.tex | pdflatex --jobname version2 /dev/stdin

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%% LaTeX input file
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Regular text, section 1.
\input{auxtext-1}
Regular text, section 2.
\input{auxtext-2}
\end{document}

Now simply move everything that you want hidden from the first section into auxtext-1.tex, everything you want hidden from section 2 in auxtext-2.tex, and never use
"auxtext" anywhere else in the file and it should work.

I wrote and tested the above in UNIX. You may be able to write a DOS batch file that does largely the same thing, only you'd have to rewrite it without the grep statement. It may be much harder to do this without grep, awk, etc....