[Tex/LaTex] Make a .tex file that combines complete .tex documents in subdirectories

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I'm using LaTeX for my research journal (similar to WordPress).

There are a number of subdirectories that contain complete (standalone) .tex files along with PDF files that I made from those standalone files.

I'd like to get a .tex file that contains all the .tex files and compiles to a PDF. What would be a good way to do that?

Currently I compile the .tex file in each subdirectory and then merge all the PDFs into a main PDF file. The problem is that each PDF takes a page and if I have a small note, the most of the page is clear. Please keep in mind that I would like to keep the standalone PDF files, too.

The other option is to cut out the body of the document and paste it into the main LaTeX file, but i was wondering if there is a package that does it. Meaning that would keep both main and stand alone files. Kind of like have chapters of the book compile separately

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Simply use the standalone package in the main file and \input all other files. The package will strip the preambles from these files. There is also the subpreambles option which will copy the preamble content of all subfiles and load it in the main preamble in the next run, so you don't have to do this yourself if the sub-files need extra packages.

You might have issues with the relatives paths. If so I would set the TEXINPUTS environment variable to .:subdir1:subdir2:subdirn: (note the leading . and the trailing empty entry which are important), so that LaTeX also looks in the subdirectories for files.

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You might be looking for the subfiles package. You have one main tex-file (main.tex for example) with the entire preamble you want in each file. Here you choose the documentclass you like and use the package subfiles: \usepackage{subfiles}. Between \begin{document} and \end{document} you use \subfile{chapter1.tex} to include chapter1.tex.

In your seperate files (for example chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex, chapter3.tex) you write the following: \documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}. This way you can create seperate pdfs from each chapter (just compile the chapter1.tex file for example) and you can create a main.pdf.

A minimal example:

main.tex

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{subfiles}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\subfile{chapter1.tex}
\end{document}

chapter1.tex

\documentclass[main.tex]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
Here comes some text
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Undefined control sequence (\email, \address) in combine class

The combine class needs to know which document classes you are using in imported documents.

This can be passed as an option at loading time: memoir, book, report, and letter can be passed directly, while, if you don't specify anything, article is assumed.

In your case you are using amsart, and to let combine know about it, you have to pass the option colclass=amsart:

\documentclass[12pt,colclass=amsart]{combine}

MWE:

\documentclass[12pt,colclass=amsart]{combine}

\title{Proceedings}

\begin{document}

 \pagestyle{combine}

 \maketitle \tableofcontents

 \clearpage


 \begin{papers}

  \coltoctitle{xxx}

  \coltocauthor{yyy}

  \label{abc}

  \import{abc}

\end{papers}

\end{document}

Output:

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