one LaTeX source file to produce two different pdf files: one main manuscript and one Supplementary Materials

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2022-07-18 at 21:32:52 -0700, Boris Veytsman wrote:

 > CWRvt> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 15:14:11 -0400
 > CWRvt> From: "Christopher W. Ryan via texhax" <texhax at tug.org>
 > 
 > CWRvt> I suppose this is a question at the intersection of LaTeX, R, Sweave. So
 > CWRvt> not entirely sure which listserve is the best place to post it.
 > 
 > Well, since you posted this to a TeX list, I will propose a TeX solution.
 > 
 > CWRvt> Is there a way to generate two pdf files, the main manuscript and the
 > CWRvt> Supplementary Materials, in one fell swoop (meaning compile the Rnw file
 > CWRvt> just once)? Or do I need to write a separate LaTeX source file that
 > CWRvt> includes the supplementary graphics and compile that separately? I
 > CWRvt> suspect the latter is true, and the former would be expecting too much
 > CWRvt> magic. But thought I'd ask.
 > 
 > It *is* possible to compile Rnw file once and output two TeX files,
 > but it is far from trivial.   A much easier (and a fully TeX solution)
 > is to generate one TeX file, and then use it to generate two different
 > pdf files, one for the main text, one for supplement.  There are many
 > ways to do it;  I'd suggest multiaudience package written exactly for
 > this purpose (https://ctan.org/pkg/multiaudience).  The additional
 > advantage is that the resulting documents can overlap: for example,
 > you probably want to enter the list of authors only once for both
 > pdfs. 


Hi Boris,
there is probably a more efficient solution.  What I dislike is that
you have to pass --jobname on the command line.

For people I support when writing their theses I provide two files,
thesis.tex and thesis-print.tex.  The print version does not have
colored hyperlinks, for example.

The print-version adds a few commands to the preamble and then loads
thesis.tex.  But you still have to compile both documents multiple
times in order to get everyting right.

But what happens if thesis-print.tex contains the line

  \def\jobname{thesis}  ?

The output file will still be "thesis-print.pdf" because the PDF
file is opened before this piece of code processed.

But LaTeX is using \jobname in order to determine the names of toc,
aux, ... files.

With \def\jobname{thesis} thesis-print.tex steals all the auxiliary
files from the previous run (theis.tex).  This saves a lot of time.

Regards,
  Reinhard
  
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