>>>>> "Richard" == Richard E Hawkins Esq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Giovanni> 3. why is inclusion from included files not possible? Is
Giovanni> this a latex misfeature?
>> It seems that there are deep technical reasons why this is not
>> possible. Several LaTeX wizards tried and failed :(
Richard> But if a brute force solution will do it, the mailmerge patch
Richard> is capable of this. For that matter, this may be the only
Richard> mailmerge system anywhere that does this; I needed it some
Richard> years ago, and it didn't exist, so . . .
Richard> However, you would lose all of your indexing, etc., while
Richard> working on the pieces. This would simply read your file and
Richard> find the <<INCLUDE>> 's, then find them again wihtin the
Richard> nested files. And there's nothing at the moment to prevent
Richard> infinite recursion . . . (OK, there's "killall -9 lyx.mm"
Richard> . . . :)
Are you talking about an \input-like capability (basic) or an
\include-like one (which preserves references of non-processed files)?
Only the later is impossible to nest in LaTeX.
JMarc
