General ⇒ Including other tex documents

[jwilley44]

Hello,

I am trying to include other tex documents in a larger tex document (either with \include or \input). My problem is the the sub documents all have preambles (so that I can compile them), but having these prevents the larger main document from compiling correctly. Do I have to comment out the preambles before I include them into the main document or is there some other workaround.

Thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

you cannot include those tex files together with their preambles. You have to comment them out. But if their settings are different compared to the preamble of the main document they may look differently at the end.

You could also consider to compile each tex file separately and include their pdf output using \includepdf of the pdfpages package.

Stefan

[phi]

If you need the ability to compile the parts independently of each other, you can work with the \includeonly command. This omits all parts except the ones explicitly specified.

[Juanjo]

You may also try the combine document class.

[localghost]

Another possible solution could be the subfiles package. But there are some modifications necessary to get things work.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹