1 compilation, several outputs

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I'm a teacher and using PdfTeX to write my courses. My question is the following : How can I compile my .teX file and generate into Pdf file : the course itself, and one or two excerpts (that I've chosen) of this same document. Typically, I edit the whole course with annotations for myself throughout the whole document but I want to provide my students with portions of it only (AND without annotations) Thank you

Addendum post comments: Let me a little be more specific : Let's assume a document such as :

\begin{document}

    \begin{tabular}
        Big array
    \end{tabular}

\begin{note for self}
  here should be done ex 2 p75
\end{note for self}

bla bla bla
\end{document}

Then compilation. Nature of the wanted outputs (.pdf) :

1) Normal (with everything provided in the document) for my personal use.

2) The same document WITHOUT the "note for self". For students use.

3) If possible a third output with the array only. For other students to cut out and stick in their notebook. (in the code i used no made up code because I didn't know how to make a reference to it).

I hope my case is a little bit clearer now.

Perhaps this answer of mine could be adapted for this problem. I could expand on it, but how to expand the basic example there should be pretty clear. — jon, Sep 06 '15 at 16:57
Possible duplicates: Can one TeX file output to multiple PDF files?; Write multiple PDFs with different options — Werner, Sep 06 '15 at 17:05
I really thought there would be lost of questions like that, but I can't find that many, I'm probably not using the right search terms though. Generally an easy solution will use the idea of jon's answer. A bit more on switches/conditionals can be found in LaTeX conditional expression) What I could find though are Producing different versions of a document and How to create two PDFs from the same source. — moewe, Sep 06 '15 at 17:07
Also similar here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258687/generate-multiple-pdfs-for-different-document-versions-in-a-single-build — , Sep 06 '15 at 17:20
Possible duplicate: How to write hidden notes in a LaTeX file? — Fran, Sep 06 '15 at 22:11
Thank you all for your reactivity. But indeed I browsed through the forum but didn't find what I need (it might be also a pb of tags...) I've just modified my question and provided some sort of an example. — Jonathan Potier, Sep 07 '15 at 18:43

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 13:31

multiaudience package could be an alternative to comment package. You will also need several compilations to get any pdf version unless you hide them inside a makefile or any other script system. But multiaudience provides advantatges in front of comment because you can combine/discard different audiences and not only select one of them.

Following you have a little example.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{multiaudience}

% Declare all possible audience groups
\SetNewAudience{teachers}
\SetNewAudience{students}
\SetNewAudience{public}

%You can decide the desired audience inside the document
%\DefCurrentAudience{public}

\begin{document}

% this array is always included
\begin{tabular}{c}
  All: First sentence seen by all audiences
\end{tabular}

% only for teachers
\begin{shownto}{teachers}
  Teachers: This text is seen only by teachers
\end{shownto}

% only for teachers and students
\begin{shownto}{public, students}
  Public,students: This text is seen by public and students but not teachers.
  \begin{shownto}{-,students}
  -students: But this one only by public
  \end{shownto}
\end{shownto}

% for all audiences except teachers
\begin{shownto}{-, teachers}
  -teachers: all except teachers.
\end{shownto}

\end{document}

Instead of fixing the audience inside the .tex file you can pass it as a compilation parameter:

pdlatex "\def\CurrentAudience{students}\input{your-tex-file}"

Nathanael Farley · Answer 2 · 2015-09-09T12:47:18.050

This can be done with the comment package like so:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{comment}

% Include custom environments before they are included/excluded
\specialcomment{teachersnote}{}{}
\specialcomment{notinsummary}{}{}

% Comment out as needed
\excludecomment{teachersnote}
\excludecomment{notinsummary}

\begin{document}

% this array is always included
\begin{tabular}{c}
  Big array
\end{tabular}

\begin{teachersnote}
  here should be done ex 2 p75
\end{teachersnote}

\begin{notinsummary}
  bla bla bla
\begin{teachersnote}
  this is a note inside a non-summary section.
\end{teachersnote}
\end{notinsummary}
\end{document}

The simplest way to create 3 pdfs in a platform independent way is probably to create 3 different files and use \input to put the body of your document in.

Example:

To compile (to put in a shell script/batch file, or done manually):

pdflatex teachersversion.tex
pdflatex studentsversion.tex
pdflatex studentssummaryversion.tex

preamble.tex:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{comment}

% Include custom environments before they are included/excluded
\specialcomment{teachersnote}{}{}
\specialcomment{notinsummary}{}{}

body.tex:

\begin{document}

% this array is always included
\begin{tabular}{c}
  Big array
\end{tabular}

\begin{teachersnote}
  here should be done ex 2 p75
\end{teachersnote}

\begin{notinsummary}
  bla bla bla
\begin{teachersnote}
  this is a note inside a non-summary section.
\end{teachersnote}
\end{notinsummary}
\end{document}

teachersversion.tex:

\input{preamble}

% Comment out as needed
% \excludecomment{teachersnote}
% \excludecomment{notinsummary}

\input{body}

studentsversion.tex:

\input{preamble}

% Comment out as needed
\excludecomment{teachersnote}
% \excludecomment{notinsummary}

\input{body}

studentssummaryversion.tex:

\input{preamble}

% Comment out as needed
\excludecomment{teachersnote}
\excludecomment{notinsummary}

\input{body}

@JonathanPotier If you feel one of the answers here is what you're looking for, consider accepting one of them (clicking the faded arrow beneath the voting arrows) — Nathanael Farley, Sep 11 '15 at 12:34

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 15:37

Some shameless self-promotion: there is also my commenting package, available at

https://github.com/bordaigorl/latex-commenting

You can declare multiple authors

\declareauthor{jon}{Jonathan}{blue}

and put comments in your text with various commands:

\comment[jon]{bla}% Inline comment
\annot[jon]{bla}% Margin comment

and others.

Then you can control what is shown by using either the draft class option or more fine grained macros like

\onlyauthors{jon}

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