scripting LaTeX and hoisted sections

[Raymond Brock]

hi

I have followed a bit of the discussion about LaTeX scripts. I have an 
applescript that does the dumbest possible thing: it just takes the 
sections and turns them into the appropriate LaTeX headings, and also 
exports the text. I modified something that was done a while ago by 
someone else (who I wish I could remember the name of - somehow I lost 
the text in the Description block) and am myself a real applescript 
dummy.

What I do is run the applescript on an OO file and it converts the 
entire thing, headings and notes, into a large latex content chunk on 
the clipboard. I then paste it into my waiting LaTeX shell in TeXShop.  
What I'm really seeing the need for is the ability to maintain a whole 
book-worth of latex headings, text etc in OO, spitting out only what I 
need to the TeX engine to accommodate updates, new ideas, changes in 
organization ,etc.

More specifically: suppose I want to make a book. In a normal LaTeX 
project, chapters would be separate files with a driver file that does 
the \include{chapterwhatever_n.tex} for organizational purposes. So, in 
that environment you work on separate chapters, in separate files. The 
database-like aspects of OO greatly enhance this, it seems to me: it 
would be very nice to have the OO file be the entire book and still be 
able to export just pieces to the tex engine. See where I'm going with 
this? Currently, when I run my little script on a selected or hoisted 
section it does the entire OO file. Inside of that, however, might be 
only one chapter out of many that I really want to work on and replace 
in my latex file collection.

The question ==> There must be a way to cause the applescript to run 
_only_ over a hoisted section in OO... Or, less slick, _only_ over a 
selected section in OO?

thanks,
Ray Brock

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Raymond Brock  *  Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
3210 BPS Building
Michigan State University  *  East Lansing, MI  48824


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