[Tex/LaTex] Can SyncTeX work across included files

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I am using the memoir class in Texmaker.

As far as I understand adding

--synctex=1

to the LaTeX and PDFLaTeX command will make the output document open up at the cursor position of the code. So if I left my cursor at the start of a particular piece of text on a random page the pdf will open up at that page.

It also enables the "click to jump to line".

Since I am typing a large document I an using \include to include all my chapters. This means when I compile I have to compile a master document. This means the cursor is now wherever I left it in the master document.

This is a huge pain since the pdf output is sometimes nowhere near the most recently edited part that I want to view. If I am working in Chapter 5 I can go leave the cursor after

\include{chapterfive}

but then the output is always on the last page of the chapter and I still need to scroll to the relevant part.

As you can imagine this becomes very tiresome very quickly. So I need help configuring Texmaker so that the PDF output opens up at the last place that I edited.

EDIT: I found a workaround. I followed this answer: Typesetting multiple TeX files

to be able to compile each chapter individually. And it worked 100%.

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For me, the following works correctly:

Load your main file in Texmaker
Choose Options -> Define Current Document as 'Master Document'
Open a subfile
Edit subfile, etc.
Press 'Quick Build'
Main file builds but 'current' file stays visible, etc.
SyncTeX linking is possible from source to PDF and the reverse

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1) I get a lot of errors if I include the preamble in any other file than the the main tex file that has \input commands in it. As a result whenever I compile, I have to compile the whole document all the time.

The way to go around this is the {subfiles} package:

Put\usepackage{subfiles} in the preamble of the main.tex.

other *.tex files are included by:

\subfile{sectionOrCapter} % no extention needed

Alls other *.tex files look like this:

\documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}

 %% special definitions or command overrides here

\begin{document}
% any LaTeX content

\subfile{someOtherSubfile} 
% any LaTeX content

\subfile{someMoreSubfile}
% any LaTeX content

\end{document}

There are some points to keep in mind:

All subfiles refer to main.tex in their \documentclass command, even it they as "transitive".
the reference to main.tex is a *relative path, this means if your subfile is buried in a deep folder structure you have to add enough ../
if your subfiles are in file system folders you should use the \graphicspath command to point to the folder containing your images:

main.tex

\graphicspath{{.}}
\begin{document}
    \includegraphics{imageInRootFolder}
    \includegraphics{subfolder/imageInSubFolder}
    \subfile{subfolder/someSubfile}
\end{document}

subfolder/someSubfile.tex

\graphicspath{{../}}
\begin{document}
    \includegraphics{imageInRootFolder}
    \includegraphics{subfolder/imageInSubFolder}
\end{document}

Alternatively you could swich to TexStudio as the successor of TexMaker wich can handle separately compile nested files on its own...

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