Re: [AUCTeX] Subfiles package and reftex

[Colin Baxter]

On Tue, Dec 27 2016, Mosè Giordano wrote:

> Hi Colin,
>
> 2016-12-27 8:54 GMT+01:00 Colin Baxter <address@hidden>:
>> How is this any advantage over simply using \include(file1}? I must be
>> missing something here.
>
> I don't use subfiles, but my understanding is that you can compile a
> single subfile without changing anything in the source code.  This is
> particularly easy with AUCTeX, because in an included file C-c C-a (or
> C-c C-c) compiles the current file, instead in master file it compiles
> the whole document.  Instead, with include mechanism you have to
> select every time the file to be included with \includeonly, manually
> editing the file whenever you want to switch between a single file or
> the whole document or you want to change the single file to be
> compiled.  I don't know whether there are other advantages.
>
> Bye,
> Mosè
>

Dear Mosè

Ah, yes I understand. I'm always editing included files, which are my
working files. My master just contains all the LaTeX options, packages,
etc. I can see your use is a bit different. Thanks for the information;
it's good to see how other people use auctex.

Best wishes,

Colin.