Managing Large Documents in LaTeX

# LaTeX auxiliary files
*.aux
*.lof
*.log
*.lot
*.fls
*.out
*.toc
*.fmt
*.fot
*.cb
*.cb2
.*.lb

# Bibliography auxiliary
*.bbl
*.bcf
*.blg
*-blx.aux
*-blx.bib
*.run.xml

# Build artifacts
build/
*.pdf
!figures/*.pdf
!templates/*.pdf

# Editor files
.vscode/
*.swp
*.swo
*~
.DS_Store

# Temporary files
*.tmp
*.bak
*.backup

# Meaningful commits for documents
git add chapters/methodology.tex
git commit -m "Add data analysis section to methodology"

git add figures/chapter3/*.pdf
git commit -m "Add experimental results figures"

git add preamble/commands.tex
git commit -m "Define custom theorem environments"

# Tag milestones
git tag -a v1.0-draft -m "First complete draft"
git tag -a v2.0-submission -m "Journal submission version"

# Branch for major revisions
git checkout -b revision-reviewer-1
git checkout -b conference-version

% Split bibliography by chapter
\usepackage[refsection=chapter]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{references/intro.bib}
\addbibresource{references/theory.bib}
\addbibresource{references/experiments.bib}

% Print chapter bibliographies
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc]

% Or global bibliography
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]

% Bibliography categories
\DeclareBibliographyCategory{own}
\addtocategory{own}{myarticle2020,mybook2021}

\printbibliography[
  category=own,
  title={Own Publications}
]

% Organize by topic
% references/machine-learning.bib
@article{lecun2015deep,
  title={Deep learning},
  author={LeCun, Yann and Bengio, Yoshua and Hinton, Geoffrey},
  journal={Nature},
  volume={521},
  number={7553},
  pages={436--444},
  year={2015}
}

% references/statistics.bib
@book{hastie2009elements,
  title={The elements of statistical learning},
  author={Hastie, Trevor and Tibshirani, Robert and Friedman, Jerome},
  year={2009},
  publisher={Springer}
}

% main.tex - Complete thesis example
\documentclass[
    12pt,
    a4paper,
    twoside,
    openright,
    english,
    bibliography=totoc,
    listof=totoc
]{scrbook}

% ====== PREAMBLE SETUP ======
\input{preamble/packages}
\input{preamble/settings}
\input{preamble/commands}

% Conditional compilation
\includeonly{
    chapters/introduction,
    chapters/methodology,
    chapters/results
}

% ====== DOCUMENT INFO ======
\title{Advanced Research in LaTeX Document Management}
\author{Your Name}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

% ====== FRONT MATTER ======
\frontmatter
\input{frontmatter/titlepage}
\input{frontmatter/declaration}
\input{frontmatter/abstract}
\input{frontmatter/acknowledgments}

\tableofcontents
\listoffigures
\listoftables
\input{frontmatter/abbreviations}

% ====== MAIN MATTER ======
\mainmatter
\include{chapters/introduction}
\include{chapters/literature}
\include{chapters/theory}
\include{chapters/methodology}
\include{chapters/implementation}
\include{chapters/results}
\include{chapters/discussion}
\include{chapters/conclusion}

% ====== APPENDICES ======
\appendix
\include{appendices/code}
\include{appendices/data}
\include{appendices/proofs}

% ====== BACK MATTER ======
\backmatter
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\include{backmatter/glossary}
\printindex

\end{document}

#!/bin/bash
# Setup script for large LaTeX project

# Create directory structure
mkdir -p {preamble,frontmatter,chapters,appendices,backmatter}
mkdir -p {figures,tables,build}
mkdir -p figures/{chapter1,chapter2,shared}

# Create preamble files
touch preamble/{packages,settings,commands,environments}.tex

# Create chapter files
for i in {1..8}; do
    touch chapters/chapter$i.tex
done

# Create front/back matter
touch frontmatter/{titlepage,abstract,acknowledgments}.tex
touch backmatter/bibliography.bib

# Create Makefile
cat > Makefile << 'EOF'
MAIN = main
LATEX = pdflatex
BIBTEX = biber
BUILDDIR = build

all: $(MAIN).pdf

$(MAIN).pdf: $(MAIN).tex
	$(LATEX) -output-directory=$(BUILDDIR) $(MAIN)
	cd $(BUILDDIR) && $(BIBTEX) $(MAIN)
	$(LATEX) -output-directory=$(BUILDDIR) $(MAIN)
	$(LATEX) -output-directory=$(BUILDDIR) $(MAIN)
	cp $(BUILDDIR)/$(MAIN).pdf .

clean:
	rm -rf $(BUILDDIR)/*

.PHONY: all clean
EOF

echo "Project structure created!"