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    <p>Those who know C++ may know what I mean by 'unity build':</p> <ol> <li>*.cpp files of a project are all effectively <strong>#include-ed</strong> into a single <strong>supermassive source file</strong> following <strong>#include directives</strong> specified in *.cpp and *.h files</li> <li>this source file is fed into the compiler</li> <li>finish! You get the output binary!</li> </ol> <p>Doing things this way means that there are that there are fewer intermediate files (*.o), fewer file reads and disk IO overheads, fewer invocations of the compiler, leading to a better build performance.</p> <p>My question is, is this possible <em>for Latex</em> at all? I want it because there is a <strong>slow post-processing pass</strong> that I would like to run over .tex files before building my final .pdf using pdflatex. Currently, it takes around 7 seconds to process my growing list of .tex files. I believe that running this pass over <em>one</em> file is significantly faster. This motivates my question!</p> <p>To summarize, I want to</p> <ol> <li>'<strong>merge</strong>' all the .tex files into a <strong>supermassive .tex source file</strong> by following the <strong>\input{} and \include{}</strong> macros in each .tex file</li> <li>feed the supermassive .tex source file into the <strong>slow post-processing pass</strong> (actually the Ott tex-filter, fyi)</li> <li>pipe the output straight into <em>pdflatex</em></li> <li>finish! I get the output PDF file!</li> </ol> <p>The first step is the problem here. Any ideas welcome. It's best if I don't need to write my own script to do this step!</p> <p>Many thanks!</p>
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    1. COI think this is a really good candidate for a LaTeX related question that is *better* on SO, but in case you don't know about it there is a [TeX related Stack Exchange](http://tex.stackexchange.com) site now.
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    2. COYup, found out about it soon after posting. Thanks!
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