[texhax] Collections

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> >  Much more serious are multiply defined labels and bib
> > entries.  Have these problems been solved?  I did search ctan for
> > "collections", but found nothing helpful.
>
> This is a lot harder, since with a multi-author document
> and lots of \include'd files (one for each paper, say),
> the .aux files are all read at the same grouping level.
> This is where the labels are first encountered.
>
> A technique that I have used is to assign a 'unique prefix'
> automatically for each paper, which will work with
>   \cite  \bibitem  \label  \ref  etc.  commands.
>
> e.g. conceptually these macros need to be changed so that
>            \label{<label>}
>   gets interpreted like
>             \label{\chapterPrefix <label>}
> and similarly in the other cases.
>
> Of course you need to change the expansion of \chapterPrefix for
> each chapter/paper  and ensure that it has been fully expanded
> when the entry is written to the appropriate  .aux  file.

If that proves too hard then, with a good editor or even batch programme, it
shouldn't be too hard to do multiple global substitutions in each input file
of the sort:

\label{xxx} -> \label{filename:xxx}

Cordialmente,  Philip G. Ratcliffe