📅 2010-May-27 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ latex, organization ⬩ 📚 Archive
Creating and maintaining a large LaTeX document using a single .tex
file can be painful. It would be wise to organize it as sections, with one or more .tex
files for each section.
For example, a large Report.tex
could be broken into 2 smaller sections: 01-Intro.tex
and 02-Results.tex
. These files can be included into the main Report.tex
using the *** command like this:
% Report.tex
\input{01-Intro.tex}
\input{02-Results.tex}
If 01-Intro.tex
and 02-Results.tex
include a lot of images, then it might be nice to move them and their respective images/files into their own subdirectories, say 01-IntroDir
and 02-ResultsDir
. In that case, Report.tex
is changed to:
% Report.tex
\input{01-IntroDir/01-Intro.tex}
\input{02-ResultsDir/02-Results.tex}
Note that the command just pulls the text from 01-IntroDir/01-Intro.tex
into the main Report.tex
for compilation. Thus, inside 01-IntroDir/01-Intro.tex
commands like \includegraphics
still need to provide the full path of their image relative to the main Report.tex
:
% 01-IntroDir/01-Intro.tex
% Image IntroPic.png is in 01-IntroDir
% This does not work:
\includegraphics{IntroPic.png}
% This is how to correctly include:
\includegraphics{01-IntroDir/IntroPic.png}