X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["913" "Wed" "8" "October" "1997" "16:01:42" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "18" "Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros" "^Date:" nil nil "10" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00442; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:17:54 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.57CD3142@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:09:04 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 210641 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:04:39 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA25688 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 17:04:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA04654 for ; Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:03:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from SRAHTZ (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:03:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199710071753.NAA17629@aleph.swift.xxx> X-Mailer: VM 6.33 under Emacs 19.34.6 Message-ID: <5167-Wed08Oct1997160142+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 16:01:42 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: LaTeX journal and publisher macros Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2404 > >makes it more convenient for long documents. These conveniences don't > >seem as wonderful in days of more powerful equipment... > > This is one aspect that I have in my mind: Computers are getting so fast > that making a full compile every once in a while does not hurt. I don't know about you people, but my most recent experience was running The LaTeX Graphics Companion (quite a complex book) a million times, while preparing new pages for a reprint. i have quite a fast computer, but it still takes 3 or 4 or 5 minutes to run the whole book, as opposed to 10-20 seconds for an easy chapter. so i want to keep \include, thanks! in addition, having a single place in the master file with the \includeonly is much less error-prone for the editing than commenting and uncommenting a slew of \input lines. not that this invalidates the discussion, but just a vote from a \include lover... Sebastian