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I have a document I want to split up into individual sections. I'd like each individual section to be independently compilable, but of course I also need the whole document to compile.

The trouble is, each of my individual sections requires a large preface (\usepackage calls, command definitions, etc.) that I am including with either \input or \include. The preface includes the \documentclass command, so I end up getting ! LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble. if I try to compile the whole document.

I'm already using \usepackage{subfiles}, but it doesn't seem to solve the problem.

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    The best package for this is the standalone package and class. It works great for me. I you might want to collect all your packages and preamble into a separate file so that this file can be included both in the main document and the sub documents. There are numerous examples on this site.
    – Peter Grill
    Nov 12, 2012 at 20:28
  • @PeterGrill make that an answer, it works
    – keflavich
    Nov 13, 2012 at 0:38

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The best package for this is the standalone package and class. There are numerous examples on this site.

You might want to collect all your packages and preamble into a separate file so that this file can be included both in the main document and the sub documents.

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