General ⇒ Switch of documentclass/compiler macros

[JoEgner]

Hi,

say I have a document I want to compile in three ways:

(1) as \documentclass[param1]{scrbook} with some parameters param1 and possibly some other settings (captions, fonts, etc).

(2) as \documentclass[param2]{scrbook} with some other parameters param2 and possibly some other settings (captions, fonts, etc).

(3) as \documentclass[param3]{scrartcl} with some other parameters param3 and possibly some other settings (captions, fonts, etc).

I could set this up by commenting out/uncommenting the respective commands. This is somewhat tedious and not very elegant. It seems I cannot use packages boolexpr or xifthen, for packages need to be loaded after the documentclass command.

If this were C world, I'd use (evil) macro statements. What's the "right" way to achieve my goal in LaTeX?

Thanks, Jo

[sommerfee]

You can use both plain TeX (\newif) and LaTeX macros (\newboolean) before \documentclass.

[frabjous]

Another thing to consider would be to create three "wrapper" files which use \input for the same core document.

I.e., make one file like this:

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\documentclass[param1]{scrbook}
\usepackage{font-package-for-this-version}
\newcommand{\something}{Command definition specific to this version.}
...
\input{core.tex}

and another like:

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\documentclass[param2]{scrbook}
\usepackage{some-other-font-package}
\newcommand{\something}{Different definition of same command.}
...
\input{core.tex}

and another however, etc.

Then just have a script or batch file compile all of them.