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* Importing frontmatter
@ 2013-02-25 18:35 john Culleton
  2013-02-25 21:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: john Culleton @ 2013-02-25 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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What is the difference between \environment foo.tex
and \input foo.tex?
 
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* Re: Importing frontmatter
  2013-02-25 18:35 Importing frontmatter john Culleton
@ 2013-02-25 21:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2013-02-25 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Am 25.02.2013 um 19:35 schrieb john Culleton <John@wexfordpress.com>:

> What is the difference between \environment foo.tex
> and \input foo.tex?

When you use \environment the file is only loaded once but \input load the file each time.

When you try to load a file which doesn’t exist \input produces a error message and asks
for a valid filename while \environment mentions an not existent file but doesn’t interrupt
the compile process.

Wolfgang
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