General ⇒ including Chapters

[Noobix Cube]

Hey all,
First post and beginning the long haul of writing up my thesis
I was wondering if you could help me.
I am writing the chapters seperately in different files and then trying to use the '\include{chaptername}' in a main tex file to make my code clear. But I am running into errors.
here is the main code :

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report}
%\usepackage[adobe-utopia]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{pxfonts}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{epstopdf}

\begin{document}

\include{TheoryNew}

\end{document}

The TheoryNew.tex is in the same folder as the main tex file. Do you need more info ? Any suggestions would be awesome

[localghost]

[...] I am writing the chapters seperately in different files and then trying to use the '\include{chaptername}' in a main tex file to make my code clear. But I am running into errors. [...] The TheoryNew.tex is in the same folder as the main tex file. Do you need more info ? Any suggestions would be awesome

What is the exact error message? Attach the log file of your example to your next post.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[Noobix Cube]

here is the log file...
hope this helps, and thanks for the quick reply

[localghost]

The log states that there is something forbidden in the file TheoryNew.tex which causes error messages. So it's important to know the content of this file. Please attach it to your next post.

Another information from the log file is that you are using MiKTeX 2.4 which is outdated since the end of 2006. It is strongly recommended to upgrade to the current version 2.7 available on the homepage.

[Noobix Cube]

Will updating affect any of my work that I have done so far?

[localghost]

A proper source code should not be affected. But let us first see the included file.

[Noobix Cube]

Okay, here is the problem modified slightly.
I have compiled it with a total text chapter but now that I input a chapter with two pdf figs it does not compile. I am using pdf texify button when compiling.
Any advice?

[Barakaty]

Hi
Honsely, I hav not tried this before. Which I would like to sugesset is to put the pream comands, I mean document class, usepackege, ........ begine document and end document in the end as well in chapter 1. Then Try to run it on its own. If it works, compile it with the main text. Otherwise, it is easer to gignouse the problem

Have a go

[mas]

Okay, here is the problem modified slightly.
I have compiled it with a total text chapter but now that I input a chapter with two pdf figs it does not compile. I am using pdf texify button when compiling.
Any advice?

I downloaded your files and commented out the figures in the Orbitals file. pdflatex compiled without any errors. Then I copied over two of my figures and renamed them to what you had in your file. Compilation was again without errors and the figures came out correctly.

FWIW, I am using texlive2008 under debian gnu/linux.

Regards.

[Noobix Cube]

Thanks all for the help,
it seems that I had not set the graphics path at the top of the main file to include the subdirectories from which the chapters were located.
All is running smoothly now.
Cheers Latex Community!