[Tex/LaTex] How to insert one latex document into another.

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This is probably online but I am not sure how to word the search. I have a long latex document, and it is getting messy editing it, is there a way to split the chapters into separate latex documents and insert like a reference to them in the main document such that when the main document is build they will show in the pdf.

Thanks.

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use \input{firstfile}

see http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~rdale/resources/writingnotes/latexstruct.html for more information.

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Solution 1: Put everything up to your \begin{document} in a separate file, say, preamble.tex. You can load this file in your document by saying \input{preamble}.

Solution 2: Almost the other way around: put your chapters in separate files, and have a main file like this

\documentclass...
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\includeonly{chapter2}
\begin{document}
\include{chapter1}
\include{chapter2}
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\end{document}

which will cause LaTeX to skip all the other chapters and only use chapter2.tex when you compile main.tex. (You can also list multiple chapters like so: \includeonly{chapter1,chapter7}.)

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Edit: This does not produce a live preview, but does work with synctex on build.

Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform text editor with support for plugins, one of which is LaTeXTools--you'll see the setup instructions there. ST2 is free to evaluate and see if it works for you. Synctex works as you describe after setting it up in Sumatra.

LaTeXTools supports modularised files by inserting the following comment at the top of modular files. You can see in my example relative directories are supported.

%!TEX root = ../main.tex
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\section{Aerothermal}

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