General ⇒ Referring to miscellaneous chunks of LaTeX code

[NB2010]

Hi,
I hope this request makes sense, essentially im building a large document with a lot of flow charts, im using the tikzpicture environment for the flowcharts but it upsets the main document (and me!) including all the tikz code, id like to keep that in a seperate document and just call the chunks of code.

I know i can use \input{} command and keep the tikz code for each flowchart in a seperate .tex file but id like to have them all in the one tikzflowcharts.tex document and call them from main.tex document.

Thanks for any help

[localghost]

I'm not sure if it will help, but you can try the xr package.


Best regards
Thorsten

[frabjous]

Why not have your separate document consist of a bunch of defined commands, e.g.:

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\newcommand{\myfirstchart}{%

% code for the first chart goes here

%
}

\newcommand{\anotherchart}{%

% code for another chart goes here

%
}

Then you'd only have to use \input once to load the entire set of commands (at the beginning or something). Then you'd just use the defined commands \myfirstchart or \anotherchart in the appropriate places in your document.

Another thing to consider would be to use an editor that does code folding.

[NB2010]

Thanks for the replies, I have implemented the simple suggestion of using \newcommand for each flowchart, by fabjous and it has helped tidy up my project a lot.

Many thanks

[localghost]

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