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OK, so per the instructions here, http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/9173/are-there-any-packages-that-i-should-not-be-using-with-ifthen-package , I figured it out. By adding a comment symbol (%) after each line, the extra space vanished!

Here's my new functional code:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e ...

I've been using ratexdb to create database reports using LaTex. I couldn't figure out how to convert decimal database input into LaTex fractions, so I custom coded a simple LaTex package which accepts decimal input (actually, the whole number & # of 64ths) and converts it into a LaTex fraction using ...

Hey Thanks ALOT! This suggestion worked pretty good, but I still had problems with keeping all of the content grouped together as I wanted it, so I finally found a solution in the poemscol package, which seems to have been designed exactly for my use case!

Again, thanks for your time, I hope this ...

I am trying to compile a large book of poems. I'm using the verse package to format the poetry.

Because of the helpful responses in this form: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=872 I am now able to keep the lines of my poetry together on the same page. (by using \\*)

My problem ...

Does anyone know of a preprocessor that will combine all of my files into one tex document right before it is processed by ratexdb?

In other words, something that would work like this:


preprocessor catalog.tex > catalogcompiled.tex
ratexdb catalogcompiled.tex > catalogfinished.tex
pdflatex ...

If you have GNU-AWK on your system, the following command will do what you desire, provided all \input commands are on a line by themselves:


awk '!/input\{/ {print}
/input\{/ {
sub (/input\{/,"")
sub (/\}.*/,"")
cmd= "cat "$1".tex"
system(cmd)
}' input-unmerged.tex > input-merged.tex


Wow ...

Does anyone know of a way to process only the \input command of a LaTeX file so that a multi-file document is joined into one (big) LaTeX file? I need to do this in order to use a database preprocessor (ratexdb) which doesn't support the \input command.

It may be that \texdbivalue{imagepath} doesn't simply expand to the path name. (For example, it may perform a check to determine if the key exists.)

I'm kinda confused. It may check if what key exists? This code works perfectly if it's not included as an \includegraphics argument. In other words ...

hmm... latexdb does not seem to be compatible at all with my needs. It runs only as a preprocessor, not as an integral part of the latex engine. In other words, it creates a .tex file with the database fields that you requested included in the file, but you cant use other latex packages to digest ...

Hm. It's only an idea. But did you insert the path in the right notation? Remember that (La)TeX needs slashes instead of backslashes in the path to a file.

An alternative interface may be latexdb . It also handles MySQL databases.

My paths are correct. I also already tried latexdb, but ran into ...