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I have a lot of documentation in a readthedocs site, and I'd like to be able to serve it as two separate PDF files. I've separated the contents for each into two top-level *.rst files (formal.rst and informal.rst), specified them both in the conf.py (as suggested here), but I'm struggling with an error during the build:

Latexmk: Need to specify at most one filename if jobname specified, 
    but 2 were found (after defaults and wildcarding).

I'm not sure whether it's possible for readthedocs to build more than one PDF? If not, does that mean I should have an entirely separate branch ...? or ...?

conf.py:

latex_documents = [
    ('formal', 'formal.tex', u'My stuff', u'My contributors', 'manual'),
    ('informal', 'informal.tex', u'My stuff', u'My contributors', 'manual'),
]
user2662404
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  • entirely separate branch should work – Steve Piercy Mar 19 '20 at 02:07
  • It does work (sorry, I should have mentioned that in the text) but I don't want to have to maintain two separate branches for the same source code, if it's possible to avoid it. If not, I guess I'll just have to suck it up ... but it's far from ideal! – user2662404 Mar 19 '20 at 02:13

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Currently, it's not possible to output more than one PDF file per build. This is a limitation. There is an issue opened at https://github.com/readthedocs/readthedocs.org/issues/2045 in case you want to subscribe to follow up with the news.

Manuel Kaufmann
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