General ⇒ Customize Compiler

[woltan]

Hi folks,
I was wondering if there is a way to customize which part of my tex files should be compiled. Something anologe to C++:

#ifdef FOO
compile this
#else
then compile this
#endif

Thx in advance for any hint or help!
cherio Woltan

[kaiserkarl13]

Please check out the ifthen package. This may help you do what you wish to do.

[josephwright]

For longer sections, look at the comment package.

[woltan]

Heyas,
first of all, thx for the suggestions. I think especially the comment package should fit my needs. However, I was hoping that there are some Enviroment Varibles that the compiler can access in order to compile different versions of the document. With the comment package I would always have to set the comment sections by hand each time I compile a version of the document.

Maybe there still is a way to kick the compiler in order to get different versions of the document.
cherio and thx again for the hints!
Woltan

[phi]

You can hand over anything to the document by calling the compiler with a command sequence instead of an input file name:

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pdflatex '\newcommand*{\mysetting}{myvalue}\input{file.tex}'