[Tex/LaTex] Chapters not showing in right order in PDF [solved]

chaptersinputthesis

I'm new to LaTex and decided to start writing my thesis on it.

I've structured the basics of my main.tex file and created corresponding chapter tex files, adding them to the main file using /input. However, after I started writing chapter 3, it kept showing up as chapter four in the PDF compiled. Then I started writing chapter 4 in its corresponding file and now the PDF isn't even getting compiled anymore. I get the error message below:

I'm not sure what might be wrong. Any ideas? Thanks for your help! Please let me know if I should provide any more info.

*edit: Thnaks for your help so far! I fixed the typos in chapter 4 and am now able to generate the PDF again, also fixed the fancyheadr issue. However, the issue with the chapters continues… Now chapter 3 is showing up as chapter 4 and chapter 4 is showing as chapter 6! I'm adding \chapter to the beginning of each chapter file, followed by the chapter title between {}. Also added this line to the top of each chapter file: %!TEX root=main.tex

Here's the code as requested (and thanks for any further help!):

   \documentclass[12pt, twoside]{report}
    \usepackage{natbib}
    \bibliography{references}
  \bibliographystyle{apa}
  \usepackage[a4paper,width=150mm,top=25mm,bottom=25mm, bindingoffset=6mm]{geometry}
  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
  \usepackage{graphicx}
  \graphicspath{ {Images/} }

  \usepackage{fancyhdr}
  \pagestyle{fancy}
  \fancyhead{}
  \fancyhead[RO,LE]{thesis title}
  \fancyfoot{}
  \fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
  \fancyfoot[LO,CE]{Chapter \thechapter}
  \fancyfoot[CO,RE]{} 
  \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
  \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
  \setlength{\headheight}{14.5pt}

  \title{
      {title}\\
      {\large institute}\\
      {\includegraphics{}} %insert logo uni later
  }
  \author{deb}
  \date{Day Month Year} %insert date

  \begin{document}

  \input{Chapters/titlepage}

  \input{Chapters/abstract}  

  \chapter*{Dedication}

  \chapter*{Declaration}

  \chapter*{Acknowledgements}

  \tableofcontents

  \listoftables

  \listoffigures

  \chapter{Introduction}
  \input{Chapters/introduction}

  \chapter{Chapter Two Title}
  \input{Chapters/chapter02}

  \chapter{Brazilian context and the 2013 and 2014 protests in Fortaleza}
  \input{Chapters/chapter03}

  \chapter{Literature review on media practices}
  \input{Chapters/chapter04}

  \chapter{Chapter Five Title}
  \input{Chapters/chapter05}

  \chapter{Chapter Six Title}
  \input{Chapters/chapter06}

  \chapter{Chapter Seven Title}
  \input{Chapters/chapter07}

  \chapter{Conclusion}
  \input{Chapters/conclusion}

  \appendix
  \chapter{Appendix}
    \input{chapters/appendix}

    \end{document}

This is the code from both chapters (3 and 4):

    %!TEX root=main.tex

    \chapter{Brazilian context and the 2013 and 2014 protests in Fortaleza}

    \section{Why were people taking to the streets?} %this is an item for broader, structural contextualization


    \section{Who were the protesters in 2013 and 2014?} %this is an item for contextualization of the movements themselves and changes between both years through their lenses, which take into account the sociopolitical changes

    \section{The Brazilian media landscape}%ver também docs com citações para meu MA e outros artigos que tratam do assunto, mas não pegar os textos em si

    \section{Internet use and digital inclusion}

    \section{Alternative media: past and present}%ver também docs com citações para meu MA e outros artigos que tratam do assunto, mas não pegar os textos em si

    \section{Nigéria, Na Rua and the people around them}%ver o que posso aproveitar do exposé na descrição geral, principalmente dos dois coletivos

    \section{Interim summary}

chapter 4:

    %!TEX root=main.tex

    \chapter{Literature review on media practices}

    \section{Practice theory}
    *origins of the concept, canon literature

    \section{Practice Theory in the Context of Media Studies}
    \section{Media practices in protest movements}
    \section{Adaption of media practices}
    \subsection{Policitization of everyday media practices}
    \subsection{Activismization of professional journalistic practices}
    \subsection{Modification/creation of media practices as a reaction to changes in conjuncture}
    \section{Interim summary}

And this is what the Table of Contents looks like now:

Best Answer

From the error message, I assume there is something like this in the code:

\section{Activismization of professional journalistic practices
\subsection{...}

Then the reason is the missing closing curly brace of the section title.

Also the \headheight warning of fancyhdr should be fixed:

If package geometry is used, then add option:

\usepackage[
  ...,
  headheight=14.5pt,
]{geometry}

Manually (and with fixes of other vertical layout lengths, maybe):
```
\setlength{\headheight}{14.5pt}
```

If this is not fixed, the layout will be inconsistent, the first pages will have a smaller \headheight, the following pages will have a larger header, which causes the text body to move down a little.

The chapter number problem should be analyzed further: Compare the information about chapters of the .log file with the output and the TeX sources. The you should be able to narrow down the problem and post some relevant code, if the problem cannot be solved.

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Partial answer, because I was lately trying something similar. Updated with @speravir’s suggestions and two ugly solutions of putting \dictum between prefixed chapter number and chapter title.

\documentclass[
  headings=big,
  chapterprefix=true%% like in standard class "report"
]{scrreprt}
%\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}%% pdflatex
\usepackage{fontspec}%% xelatex
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}

%% partial TOCs after chapter title
\usepackage[]{minitoc}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3} % number subsubsections
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3} % list subsubsections
\mtcsetdepth{minitoc}{2}% ~ \setcounter{minitocdepth}{2}
\mtcsetfont{minitoc}{*}{\usekomafont{chapterentry}}
\mtcsetfont{minitoc}{section}{\usekomafont{chapterentry}\bfseries} 
\mtcsetfont{minitoc}{subsection}{\usekomafont{chapterentry}} 
\mtcsettitle{minitoc}{\relax}% remove “Contents”
\mtcsetoffset{minitoc}{-3.5em}% don’t know the appropriate length
\mtcsetrules{minitoc}{off}
\mtcsetpagenumbers{minitoc}{on}% default anyway
%\mtcsetfeature{minitoc}{before|after|open|close|pagestyle}{command} 

%% layout of chapter title by @Speravir
\addtokomafont{chapterprefix}{\raggedleft}
\renewcommand*{\chapterformat}{%
\mbox{\chapappifchapterprefix{\nobreakspace}%
\scalebox{5}{\color{gray}\thechapter\autodot}\enskip}%
}

%% put dictum between chapter number (with prefix) and title
%% \setdictum[⟨source⟩]{⟨quote⟩} -- before \chapter
\iftrue % change to \iffalse to test different approach
%% hacky approach
\newcommand\getdictum{\relax}
\newcommand\setdictum[2][]{\renewcommand\getdictum{\dictum[#1]{#2}}}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
%% \patchcmd{⟨command⟩}{⟨search⟩}{⟨replace⟩}{⟨success⟩}{⟨failure⟩}
\patchcmd{\@@makechapterhead}{\size@chapterprefix{}}{\size@chapterprefix{}{\vskip 1em\getdictum}}{}{}
\makeatother
\else
% 
\newcommand\setdictum[2][]{%
  \setchapterpreamble[ol][0.5\textwidth]{\vskip 5em\dictum[#1]{#2}}%
}
\fi

\begin{document}
\dominitoc
\faketableofcontents

\setcounter{chapter}{6}\setcounter{page}{199}

\setdictum[Sun Tzu]{If you know the enemy and you know yourself %\\
you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.}
\chapter{Conclusions}

\minitoc

\section{Summary of Achievements}
Text goes here
\newpage\setcounter{page}{212}
\subsection{Papers Submitted}
\subsubsection{I want to go into the TOC}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Dynamically count words in chapter and insert word count at start of chapter

Assuming the file count.tex is not created, it may be that the command in \write18 is not run, so you might want to ensure that you are actually running TeXcount.

First, for \write18 to execute, LaTeX must be run with a command line option: --enable-write18 or --shell-escapee as explained in the TeXcount FAQ.

Next, you can try running TeXcount without the pipes, and use the option -out=filename to write the output from TeXcount directly to file: eg texcount -out=\jobname.out \jobname.tex to give a minimal example. If this fails, TeXcount is probably not run at all.

Maybe you need to provide the full path to texcount, although I think that would be unlikely to be a problem on Linux.

Is there any information in the LaTeX log? I think it should log that \write18 is being run or not, and perhaps provide some error message if something has gone seriously wrong.

Once you have TeXcount running using \write18, you need to run TeXcount with options that make TeXcount process the included files, and produce statistics either per file or per section depending on you desire.

By default, TeXcount only parses the main file, not files included through \input or \include. To make TeXcount process these, you need to use one of two options: either -inc which makes TeXcount parse each file separately, or -merge which makes it merge the files together and process it as if it was one big file.

What would be closest to the original example would be

texcount -merge -sub=section \jobname.tex

which would merge the files and produce per section summary counts. I think the grep and sed commands might work as in the example with this command: otherwise, it should work with some adjustments.

I recommend running TeXcount from the command line first to see the full output, and then adding the greps and seds to check if they work as desired.

Since your files lie in subfolders, you might want to verify what the value of \thesection is at each relevant point.

A slightly different approach could be to use per-file statistics from TeXcount by running something like

texcount -inc -brief \jobname.tex

which should return one line per file plus one for the total. Potential problems with this approach would be that you'd need the file name (or path) to extract the correct line from the TeXcount output, and that the section headers in your example would be counted as part of the main file rather than the corresponding file.

As a side-note, there are other ways to provide per section counts. One is to run TeXcount on each included file rather than one the whole document and grep out the relevant section. Another is to use a template to customise the output from TeXcount in such a way that it produces LaTeX code: I'll see if I can find or come up with an example of how to do that.

Alternative solution giving counts per file

You can define an alternative file input command which does the counting per file:

\newcommand\countinput[1]{
\input{#1}
\immediate\write18{texcount "#1.tex" -1 -sum > count.txt}
\footnote{FILE #1 CONTAINS \oldinput{count.txt} WORDS}
}

You may experiment with TeXcount options -1, -sum, -brief to find combinations that give you what you want. There is also the -template option for additional customisation, but that might get a bit more tricky.

You can even redefine the existing \input along these lines:

\let\oldinput=\input
\newcommand\countinput[1]{
\oldinput{#1}
\immediate\write18{texcount "#1.tex" -1 -sum > count.txt}
\footnote{FILE #1 CONTAINS \oldinput{count.txt} WORDS}
}
\let\input=\countinput

Do note that you now have to use \oldinput instead of \input to include the counts file.

For experimenting, it might be easier to use \verbatiminput from the verbatim package to include the counts file since the counts file tends to contain characters that TeX treats as special characters: eg "#". That way, you can use the full default output from TeXcount with per section counts should you wish.

Do note that the per file counts will not include the chapter headers as those are part of the main file rather than included in the subfiles.

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