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4 Two Volume Cross References
5 ===========================
9 For lispref 2.9 (for Emacs 22, June 2007), I created a very ugly
10 Makefile, in the file two-volume.make, to encapsulate all the steps
11 below, without manual intervention. In theory, simply running "make -f
12 two-volume.make" should create a vol1.pdf and vol2.pdf with all the
15 One issue not explicitly discussed below is getting page numbers right.
16 It's not enough to go through the whole process. You have to go through
17 the whole process twice -- otherwise, some index entries and/or toc
18 entries will be off by one. See two-volume.make for a few more comments.
20 For future editions, it should suffice to update the usual things in
21 vol[12].texi (as well as elisp.texi). That was my hope, anyway.
26 This enables you to create manuals in *two* volumes, with tables of
27 contents, cross references, and indices in each volume referring to
30 The procedure is tedious. However, the resulting two volumes are
31 conveniently organized. Each has an index of the whole two volumes.
32 Each volume starts with page 1. (I don't like multi-volume works
33 where each volume starts with a higher page number since I find it
34 harder to go to the right place in the volume.)
36 References to the same volume are just the page number; references to
37 the other volume are a volume number (in Roman numerals) preceding
40 For example, in Volume I:
42 list length ......... 90
43 list motion ......II:117
47 list length ....... I:90
48 list motion .........117
50 All other references and the table of contents work the same way. I
51 find this *very* helpful.
54 In brief: you run tex on a .texi file with
56 a. redefined @contents and @summarycontents inputting elisp-toc-2vol.toc file
61 Here are the steps in detail:
71 ### Create .aux files with volume numbers for other volume.
73 % cp vol1.aux elisp1-aux
74 % cp vol2.aux elisp2-aux
76 % cp vol1.aux elisp1-aux-vol-added
77 % cp vol2.aux elisp2-aux-vol-added
79 on elisp1-aux-vol-number-added
80 (volume-aux-markup 1) see defun for volume-aux-markup below.
81 to create elisp1-aux-vol-added
83 on elisp2-aux-vol-number-added
85 to create elisp2-aux-vol-added
87 insert elisp2-aux-vol-added into vol1.aux (append)
88 insert elisp1-aux-vol-added into vol2.aux (prepend)
90 (so you don't have to do it again)
91 % cp vol1.aux elisp1-aux-ready
92 % cp vol2.aux elisp2-aux-ready
95 ### Create .fn files with volume numbers for other volume.
97 % cp vol1.fn elisp1-fn
98 % cp vol2.fn elisp2-fn
100 % cp vol1.fn elisp1-fn-vol-number-added
101 % cp vol2.fn elisp2-fn-vol-number-added
103 on elisp1-fn-vol-number-added
104 (volume-index-markup "I")
105 to create elisp1-fn-vol-number-added
107 on elisp2-fn-vol-number-added
108 (volume-index-markup "II")
109 to create elisp2-fn-vol-number-added
111 insert elisp2-fn-vol-number-added into vol1.fn: do following `cat'
112 insert elisp1-fn-vol-number-added into vol2.fn: do following `cat'
114 % cat elisp2-fn-vol-number-added >> vol1.fn
115 % cat elisp1-fn-vol-number-added >> vol2.fn
117 Be sure to handle special case entries by hand.
118 Be sure that .fn file has no blank lines.
123 (so you don't have to do it again)
124 % cp vol1.fns elisp1-fns-2vol-ready
125 % cp vol2.fns elisp2-fns-2vol-ready
127 ### Create merged .toc file with volume number headings.
129 append vol2.toc to vol1.toc with following `cat'
131 % cat vol1.toc vol2.toc > elisp-toc-2vol.toc
133 and edit in Volume titles
135 \unnumbchapentry {Volume 1}{}
136 \unnumbchapentry {}{}
138 \unnumbchapentry {Index}{295}
139 \unnumbchapentry {}{}
140 \unnumbchapentry {Volume 2}{}
141 \unnumbchapentry {}{}
143 If you want to put in volume numbers for TOC, then do this:
144 Create volume specific .toc files with volume numbers in them.
146 % cp elisp-toc-2vol.toc elisp1-toc.toc
147 % cp elisp-toc-2vol.toc elisp2-toc.toc
149 Use keyboard macro to put I: in first half of elisp1-toc.toc and
150 II: in first half of elisp2-toc.toc
152 Copy the tocs to something you can remember more easily
154 % cp elisp2-toc.toc elisp1-toc-ready.toc
155 % cp elisp1-toc.toc elisp2-toc-ready.toc
157 Then, edit vol1.texi to input elisp1-toc-ready.toc
158 and vol2.texi to input elisp2-toc-ready.toc
161 ### Now format the two volumes:
163 % cp elisp1-aux-2vol-ready vol1.aux
164 % cp elisp2-aux-2vol-ready vol2.aux
171 For every additional run:
173 ### recopy aux files so the correct ones are read:
174 % cp elisp1-aux-2vol-ready vol1.aux
175 % cp elisp2-aux-2vol-ready vol2.aux
177 Do not run texindex. Then proper sorted index will stay.
178 else do: % cp elisp2-fns-2vol-ready vol2.fns
180 Do not change the .texi files; they will call the elisp-toc-2vol.toc file.
185 ================================================================
188 (defun volume-aux-markup (arg)
189 "Append `vol. NUMBER' to page number.
190 Apply to aux file that you save.
191 Then insert marked file into other volume's .aux file."
192 (interactive "sType volume number, 1 or 2: " )
193 (goto-char (point-min))
194 (while (search-forward "-pg" nil t)
196 (delete-backward-char 1 nil)
197 (insert ", vol.'tie" arg "}")))
199 (defun volume-index-markup (arg)
200 "Prepend `NUMBER:' to page number. Use Roman Numeral.
201 Apply only to unsorted index file,
202 Then insert marked file into other volume's unsorted index file.
203 Then run texindex on that file and save."
205 "sType volume number, roman number I or II: " )
206 (goto-char (point-min))
207 (while (search-forward "\\entry" nil t)
208 (search-forward "}{" (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)) nil)
212 ================================================================
217 1. Run TeX, texindex and TeX on file1.
218 2. Run TeX, texindex and TeX on file2.
220 3. Copy both .aux files into specially named files
222 4. In the case of the elisp ref manual,
224 copy the *unsorted* function index files into specially named files
225 (no other index used in elisp ref manual)
230 Run a function on the specially named .aux files to label each
231 entry according to volume. Save these files.
234 'xrdef {Special-pg}{7} to 'xrdef {Special-pg}{7, vol.'tie1}
236 5a.Insert each specially named .aux file into the regular .aux file of
241 Run a function on the specially named unsorted index files to label
242 each entry according to volume. Save these files.
244 6b.Insert each specially named marked unsorted index file into the
245 regular unsorted file of the other volume. Run texindex on this
247 7. Insert the other volumes .toc file into the .toc, edit, and rename to
250 7a. insert special @contents and @summarycontents defs into .texi files.
252 8. Run TeX on each .texi file.
258 Here is the discursive commentary:
260 I've been running some small test files, called test1.texi and
261 test2.texi. As far as I can see, if we run tex on the two test files,
262 tex creates a .aux for each that includes the names of all the nodes
263 in that file. The node names are used for cross references.
265 If you insert the .aux file for the second test file, test2.aux, into
266 the .aux file for the first test file, test1.aux, then when you next
267 run TeX on the first test file, test1.texi, the second volume cross
268 references are inserted.
270 You can edit the text of the cross reference in test2.aux to include
273 For example, you can take the following two lines from test1.texi and
274 insert them into test2.texi:
276 'xrdef {Special-pg}{7}
277 'xrdef {Special-snt}{Section'tie1.6}
279 You can re-edit this to show that the page is in volume 1:
281 'xrdef {Special-pg}{7, vol.'tie1}
282 'xrdef {Special-snt}{Section'tie1.6}
284 (The 'tie is a TeX special command to keep the number tied on one
285 line to the previous word. I don't know if it works after a period in
286 the "vol." but figure it is worth trying. {The ' is the @ of .aux files.}
287 Apparently 'tie is like the tilde in plain tex; in texinfo.tex, the
288 definition for 'tie is the following:
290 \def\tie{\penalty 10000\ } % Save plain tex definition of ~.
294 After running tex on the test2.texi file with the augmented test2.aux
295 file, you can see the following in the resulting DVI file:
297 See Section 1.6 [Special], page 7, vol. 1
299 Note that TeX rewrites the .aux file each time TeX is run, so after
300 running Tex using an .aux file augmented with the .aux file from the
301 other volume, the new .aux file will *lack* the other volumes cross
302 references. Save your augmented .aux file in some other name for
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