General ⇒ Modify file names in a command definition

[normanj]

I'm preparing a large document with approximately 300 included source files. Depending on certain flag settings, I also add other files such as images. I would like to do this as a command definition so I don't duplicate the inclusion logic (which can change) in the master document 300 times, The name of the included .tex file being passed in as a parameter.

When included, the image file has the same file stem as a the included .tex file (e.g. exclusions.tex and exclusions.jpg).

Rather than pass in both file names, It would be more elegant and less error prone if I could pass a single argument to the new command and generate the file names from that, for example, if I pass in donorItems as a file stem and generate donorItems.tex and donorItems.jpg to use within the command. However, I have not been able to see how this can be done.

Is someone able to suggest a way this might be accomplished, or suggest an alternative way to achieve the same result?

Thank you.

[Johannes_B]

I think what you are looking for is \jobname

[cgnieder]

for example, if I pass in donorItems as a file stem and generate donorItems.tex and donorItems.jpg to use within the command.

I believe what you want might be easily possible. However, I didn't really understand your aim. What Do you mean by “generate”? The files themselves should be generated through TeX? Or are they present already but you want to include them? The latter would be as easy as

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\newcommand*\myinclude[1]{%
  \input{#1.tex}\par
  \inlcudegraphics{#1.jpg}%
}

\myinclude{donoritems}

Can't you post some minimal code showing what you're doing right now and some code what you would like your source to look like ideally?

[normanj]

Thanks cgneider. Your suggestion does what I need, and is simpler than I had envisaged. To answer your question, what I intended (and said) was to generate the file names, not the files themselves, which is what you provided.

Thanks again