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I am working on a book project with Springer. I finished a draft with their style file and it complies well.

Now, I hope to put this on ArXiv after stripping out all the proprietary material including springer logo and their style files. I already made a amsbook version also, by changing (for example)

Springer: \abstract{foo bar} amsbook: \begin{abstract}foo bar\end{abstract}

There are several other points as well. (\spnewtheorem vs \newtheorem etc) It took me quite some effort.

In such a case, is it possible to maintain a single TeX file, or at least two files with minimal changes, so that simultaneous editing is not so hard? It sounds painful to edit the two files synchronously whenever I find typos in the future.

One brute force way would be I make lots of source files abstract-chapter1.tex abstract-chapter2.tex etc..

and make

springer.tex \abstract{\include{abstract-chapter1}}

amsbook-source.tex \begin{abstract}\include{abstract-chapter1}\end{abstract}

and so forth. But this method still seems to require too much unnecessary work. Any advice would be appreciated.

Roland
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    You surely shouldn't use \include for the abstract, but rather \input. – egreg Jun 29 '21 at 12:56
  • Please consider https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/58624/3850 as an answer to your question. It offers several ways to accomplish what you want. If your TeX-Foo is lacking and get back to me, I can provide a full answer with explanation(s). – hsmyers Oct 06 '21 at 05:46

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