General ⇒ how to manage LaTeX macros in a collaborative paper

[yoo]

Let's say X and Y are writing a single paper, and say X writes part 1 and Y writes part 2. Each of these authors has their own tex file containing all of their macros (\newcommand stuff)

X and Y add include their macros together in the preamble:

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% preamble
% ...
\input{X-macros.tex} % X's macros
\input{Y-macros.tex} % Y's macros
% ...
\begin{document}
\include{part1.tex}
\include{part2.tex}
\end{document}

And it turns out that X and Y share a lot of macro names, sometimes same name with different definitions.

How should we deal with such macro conflict issues?

Is there a way to introduce some kind of namespace or scope?

[nlct]

You could do something like:

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\begin{document}
{\input{X-macros.tex}% X's macros
\include{part1.tex}}
{\input{Y-macros.tex}% Y's macros
\include{part2.tex}}
\end{document}

Regards
Nicola Talbot