Page Layout ⇒ Multiple Headers in one Document

[Fishie Bubbles]

I'm typesetting a document that requires three different headers throughout its seven plus pages and it has several user inputs defined.

For each header I created a separate text file, and the header is defined in the preamble of each text file. In each of these three files, I have several user inputs defined, a few of which overlap with the other files. I want all three files to be compiled into one main document and the user inputs to be defined in that main document such that they are propagated throughout the three text files being called on in the one main document. I can't use the \include or \input commands because I have a complete preamble in each of the three text files. I don't want to use pdfpages because I want the user inputs to be in the main file and I can't do that if I use its \includepdf command.

Right now my main file looks something like the following (without any user inputs):

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\documentclass{report}
...
\usepackage{}
...
\begin{document}
\includepdf{File1}%First three pages with Header 1
\includepdf{File2}%Next three pages with Header 2
\includepdf{File3}%Final page with Header 3
\end{document}

I would like to have user inputs within the main file instead of them being defined in each separate file (File1, File2, File3).

Can anyone help me? Thank you!

[localghost]

I'm afraid that I don't really understand the problem since it is possible to define several page styles in one document e.g. by packages like fancyhdr or titleps. Another approach for your use case could be to use either combine or subfiles.

If that doesn't help, please prepare a concrete, self-contained and minimal example. It is easier to fix given code than to guess something from vague descriptions.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[Fishie Bubbles]

That combine document class is working well for me, thank you for bringing it up! I think that is the solution that I've been looking for