`Communication' between sets of Minutes

One part of the Minutes of any meeting will give a report of ``Matters arising from the Minutes of the last meeting''. As described in Sections  and , these items are listed specifically in the Agenda for the next meeting, together with their item-numbers in the previous Minutes. To help with the production of the next set of Minutes the L^ATEX index file can be included into the main .TEX file, after a little global editing. In the example included here each line in the file EXAMPLE.IDX needs to be changed as, e.g., from

\indexentry{matter Use of LaTeX old:ltx}

to

\matter{Use of LaTeX}{old:ltx} <report>

where <report> would be some suitable description of what was said, e.g. ``Everbody is finding that L^ATEX is wonderful''.

The \matter command, shown above, needs the definition of a L^ATEX label, old:ltx above, to give the item-number from the previous set of Minutes. The only way that I have found to do this is to use the .AUX file for the previous set of Minutes: in the example included here this is MINS_OLD.AUX. This file is included in the input for L^ATEX from the MINS_SET.TEX file, so if its name is to be changed then the MINS_SET.TEX file will need to be changed. In order to build the MINS_OLD.AUX file the main .TEX file for the previous set of Minutes should be processed without producing an Agenda (see also Section ): this will give an .AUX file, with suitable \newlabel commands, that can be renamed to MINS_OLD.AUX.