I need to generate my references separately from the main document (i.e., one pdf with the content and one with the bibliography). I achieved this the following way:
To generate the pdf lacking references, compile the document with the following line \nobibliography{bibfile}
. To compile, run pdflatex
; bibtex
; pdflatex
; pdflatex
.
To generate the pdf with only references, change the above line to \bibliography{bibfile}
, and comment the entire document except this line and the \bibliographystyle
line. To comment, I used verbatim (\usepackage{verbatim}
) and enclosed everything within \begin{document}
and \end{document}
with \begin{comment}
and \end{comment}
, except, as mentioned, the bibliography-pertinent commands. To compile, run pdflatex
once.
Is there a simpler way to achieve the same result (one file with references only and one with content only)?
Best Answer
Maybe not exactly the solution to your problem, but I give it a shot: You could start the bibliography on a new page and reset the page counter to one
This way you still produce one PDF file with both content and references, but you could separate them into two appropriately page numbered independent files.