General ⇒ Working with large documents

[ajmal88]

Hi!

Since I am new to LateX and have decided to do my final year project in it, I am wondering what is the most effective way of working with LateX? I have Windows 7 and currently I feel comfortable using TeXstudio to write my code and preview it.

At the moment I am writing everything (text and code)in the same file, but I am realizing that it will become very messy as I go along. Is it the norm to just create several files like abstract, introduction, theory, analysis, discussion, conclusion and appendix in different tex.files and then use the

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\include {filename}

command to put the file into the main tex.file. The preamble will of course stay in the main tex.file.

If this is the only way, is it really necessary? TeXstudio and teXnicCenter (dont like it so I dont use it)gives you the option to hide the text so that you can get a clearer and better overview of the code.

Let me know if my suggested way is the right or the only way, or do you use a different way?

thanks

[kaiserkarl13]

It's not clear from your post what else you would expect to be able to do....

There is an \includeonly command that, as its name implies, only includes the files specified, but still keeps their respective .aux entries in place so the cross-references and section/chapter/etc. numbers don't get messed up.

[ajmal88]

alright thanks, well I dont know. There seems to be a million different things you can do in lateX, its such a large and stable typesetting programme.