General ⇒ \input only including first file

[TomEatWorld]

I'm quite new to LaTeX so hopefully this should be quite an easy fix.
I'm putting together my first larger file and was looking at using \input in order to gather files together. However, using the code:

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\documentclass[11pt, onecolumn]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{sidecap}
\sidecaptionvpos{figure}{c}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage[small]{caption}

\input{file1.tex}
\input{file2.tex}

I can only get a single file to be inputted. If I change the first input to become a comment (by adding a % before it) the second file will appear when compiled but removing it only gives the first again. Am I missing something really simple?

Thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Tom,

welcome to the board!

What is the content of file1.tex? If it would contain \end{document}, LaTeX would end the document without reading file2.tex.

Stefan

[TomEatWorld]

Ah brilliant! That's the problem. Thanks!

On a different note, is there an easy way to merge references from two (or more) separate files?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you use \include or \input, no problem, simply use references as usual.

If you would like to refer to other documents, you could use the xr package.

Stefan

PS: Generally, for different questions it would be good to open a new thread.