On 23 Nov 2022, at 3:03, Colin Baxter wrote:
>>>>>> Arash Esbati <ar...@gnu.org> writes: > > >> Is there anyway to generate different PDF files for each included > >> file in master file with AUCTeX. > >> > >> More specifically, I have one master file called “master”, in > >> which, I have included two chapters: “chapter01” and “chapter02”. > >> I want AUCTeX (after appropriate number of runs) to generate one > >> PDF for the master file, one PDF for chapter01, one PDF for > >> chapter02 and (the bonus) one PDF for bibliography. > > > I'm not sure how you plan to do that, but one solution comes to my > > mind is using \includeonly in the preamble and control the output > > with it. > > > See here for details: > > > http://latexref.xyz/_005cinclude-_0026-_005cincludeonly.html > > > Best, Arash Thank you Arash. Ideally, I am looking for a way to generate individual pdf files (4 in the example above) with one command with AUCTeX. > \includeonly and use refsection to make bibliographies per chapter. See > this stackexchange question: > > https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/87414/per-chapter-bibliographies-in-biblatex. > > If individual chapter biographies are not necessary then why not use > something like PDFtk to split the master pdf into chapter pdfs? That is what I am doing right now, but I wanted to automate it. Kourosh