\
import
’ entire documents,
and provides means of specifying significant features of the layout of
the document, as well as a global table of contents, and so on. An
auxiliary package, combinet, allows use of the \
title
s
and \
author
s (etc.) of the \
import
ed documents to appear in
the global table of contents.
Subfiles is used in the component files of a multi-file
project, and the corresponding subfiles is used in the
master file; arrangements may be made so that the component files will
be typeset using different page format, etc., parameters than those
used when they are typeset as a part of the main file.
A more ‘raw’ toolkit is offered by Matt Swift’s includex and
newclude packages, both part of the frankenstein
bundle. Note that Matt believes includex is obsolete
(though it continues to work for this author); furthermore, its
replacement, newclude remains “in development”, as it has
been since 1999.
Both includex and newclude enable you to
‘\
includedoc
’ complete articles (in the way that you
‘\
include
’ chapter files in an ordinary report). The preamble
(everything up to \
begin{document}
), and everything after
\
end{document}
, is ignored by both packages. Thus the
packages don’t “do the whole job” for you, though: you need to
analyse the package use of the individual papers, and ensure that a
consistent set is loaded in the preamble of the main report. (Both
packages require moredefs, which is also part of the bundle.)
A completely different approach is to use the pdfpages
package, and to include articles submitted in PDF format into a
a PDF document produced by PDFLaTeX. The package
defines an \
includepdf
command, which takes arguments similar to
those of the \
includegraphics
command. With keywords in the
optional argument of the command, you can specify which pages you want
to be included from the file named, and various details of the layout
of the included pages.
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