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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Expanding \input, \include to obtain single file
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.223142.4594@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 14 Jan 91 22:31:42 GMT
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>When shipping TeX and LaTeX files to others which may or may not have
>the same operating system (and file naming convention) and probably no
>access to all style files used, it would be helpful to "expand" or merge
>all input, includes and documentstyle options to generate a single file.
>In other words, each input, include, etc. would be replaced by the file
>contents it references. A crude approach is to use SED on Unix to
>convert \include and \input to #include's and then run the C
>preprocessor across the root file, but that still does not handle the
>style files (and has other problems). Is anybody aware of easier
>alternatives?

I'd be careful with the C preprocessor, if you have the word "unix" in
the input you may find it replaced by 1. Also unbalanced quotes, etc
will make strict cpps grumble.

Kamal Al-Yahaya's textools contains a texexpand if I remember
correctly.  I don't think it does sty files, but maybe a sed script in
front will fix that. Where: uunet.uu.net:comp.sources.unix at least.