[Tex/LaTex] Is it possible to use includegraphics with relative path with subfolder, inside subfiles

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My question is a followup question of this:
Is it possible to use includegraphics with relative path inside subfiles?

I have my images in sub/image folder. I want automatically add 'sub/images' path for graphics, for each of the subfiles. Can any one help me edit the code so that it can do that?

This given code adds path to the subfiles, so that the image should be in the same path as the subfile. I want to keep the image in a subfolder.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\makeatletter
\let\org@subfile\subfile
\renewcommand*{\subfile}[1]{%
  \filename@parse{#1}% LaTeX's file name parser
  \expandafter
  \graphicspath\expandafter{\expandafter{\filename@area}}%
  \org@subfile{#1}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  Main file
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

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EDITED in light of sajid's comments. But the additional \expandafter is not needed.

You can just append the sub-directory in the usual way.

  \graphicspath\expandafter{\expandafter{\filename@area img/}}%

This works even if the image needs conversion. (I copied the standard tiger image from the distribution, which needs to be converted for pdfTeX.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\makeatletter
\let\org@subfile\subfile
\renewcommand*{\subfile}[1]{%
  \filename@parse{#1}% LaTeX's file name parser
  \expandafter
  \graphicspath\expandafter{\expandafter{\filename@area img/}}%
  \org@subfile{#1}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  Main file
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

Hopefully this is the expected output:

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[Tex/LaTex] subfiles inside a subfile using relative paths

I have had the same issue as you.

It is important to note that \providecommand only defines \main one time which is the first time it is run.

So when providing \main in a subfile then it is also provided in master.tex and master.tex will not redefine it.

That is also why it needs to be done before the document class in subfiles as this is where the master.tex code is executed.

If you use \def\main{..} instead then it will be overridden every time you include a subfile.

It was solved as:

%main.tex
\usepackage{subfiles}
\providecommand{\main}{.} % relative path to master.tex
\begin{document}
\subfile{chap1/chapter1}
...
\end{document}

%chapter1.tex
\providecommand{\main}{..} %Important: It needs to be defined before the documentclass
\documentclass[\main/main.tex]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction}
\subfile{\main/chap1/purpose} %Insert relative before file
...
\end{document}

%purpose.tex
\providecommand{\main}{..}
\documentclass[\main/main.tex]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
\section{Purpose}
\end{document}

I hope someone will find is useful.

Edit:

One can also solve this by providing \input@path. This makes the solution work without inserting \main in all path's

\makeatletter
\providecommand*{\input@path}{{..}}
\g@addto@macro\input@path{{..}}% append % if you cant override it
\makeatother

[Tex/LaTex] Is it possible to use includegraphics with relative path inside subfiles

Package graphics provides \graphicspath that allows one to specify further directories for the search path of image files:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\begin{document}
  Main file

  \graphicspath{{sub/}}
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

Or \graphicspath can be called automatically for each \subfile:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\makeatletter
\let\org@subfile\subfile
\renewcommand*{\subfile}[1]{%
  \filename@parse{#1}% LaTeX's file name parser
  \expandafter
  \graphicspath\expandafter{\expandafter{\filename@area}}%
  \org@subfile{#1}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  Main file
  \subfile{sub/sub.tex}
\end{document}

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