The package below has been put up at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your local mirror.
Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: subdocs 0.1 Author's name: Javier Bezos Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/bezos Summary description: Multifile documents License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a tentative package aiming to provide a different approach for multidocument works (mainly, books with a document per chapter). Unlike the include mechanism, every subdocument is a complete normal LaTeX document and can be typeset separately. What the package does is sharing the aux files. It's still an alpha version, and no attempt has been done yet to make it to work with, say, hyperref. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/bezos . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/subdocs (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .