Issue with listings and standalone packages

Question

I am writing a document using multiple files. I've been using the standalone package without any problem until today. I need to create an appendix chapter containing some Matlab code, so I decided to use the listings package. However, now I am getting an error which prevents my bibliography, which comes afterwards, form being compiled. Basically now I can see my whole document down to the last page of this appendix, but no bibliography. I have no problem in compiling the standalone appendix, nor compiling the rest of the document without said chapter.

Here is my relevant code. First the main.tex file.

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright,titlepage]{book}
\usepackage[subpreambles=true]{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[italian,english]{babel}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\MakeOuterQuote{"}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage[binding=5mm]{layaureo}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage[strict]{changepage}
\usepackage{import}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{tocbibind}
\usepackage[overload]{empheq}
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

% CAPTIONS settings
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup{tableposition=top,figureposition=bottom,font=small}

% HEADERS settings
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{\thechapter.\ #1}{}}
\renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]{\markright{\thesection\ #1}{}}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\thepage}
\fancyhead[CE]{\nouppercase{\small{\leftmark}}}
\fancyhead[CO]{\nouppercase{\small{\rightmark}}}
\fancyfoot{}

% TITLES settings
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
    {\Huge \bfseries}
    {\flushright \chaptername \ \thechapter}
    {40pt}
    {\Huge \bfseries}

%BIBLIOGRAPHY settings
\usepackage[backend=biber,style=science,sorting=none,sortcites=true,maxnames=1,date=year,doi=false,isbn=false,url=true,useeditor=false]{biblatex}
\bibliography{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/bibtex/bib/local/library.bib}
\renewcommand{\autocite}[1]{\textsuperscript{\cite{#1}}}

\begin{document}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\import{title_page/}{source}
\import{dedica/}{source}

\frontmatter
\pagenumbering{Roman}
\tableofcontents
\listoffigures

\mainmatter
\import{chapters/chapter_01/}{source}
\import{chapters/chapter_02/}{source}
\import{chapters/chapter_03/}{source}
\import{chapters/chapter_04/}{source}
\import{chapters/chapter_05/}{source}
\import{chapters/chapter_06/}{source}
\import{chapters/appendix_A/}{source}

\backmatter
\printbibliography[heading=bibintoc]
\end{document}

And now the appendix.

\documentclass[class=book,float=false,crop=false]{standalone}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{courier}

\definecolor{mygreen}{rgb}{0.133,0.545,0.133}
\definecolor{myviolet}{rgb}{0.627,0.125,0.941}

\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{basicstyle=\footnotesize\ttfamily,language=Matlab,numbers=left,breaklines=true,keywordstyle=\color{blue},commentstyle=\color{mygreen},numberstyle=\tiny\color{gray},stringstyle=\color{myviolet}
}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\bibliography{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/bibtex/bib/local/library.bib}

\begin{document}
\appendix
\renewcommand\chaptername{Appendix}
\chapter{Implemented code}
The developed code is organized in multiple files. The analysis is called either invoking BLA BLA BLA

\lstinputlisting{/PATH/TO/FILE.m}

\end{document}

I simplified this last file neglecting lots of lstinputlinstings calls. This is because the error shows up even with just one input.

Thanks in advance to whoever will give some help :)

Answer 1

I minimised your code to the following code

% main file
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[subpreambles=true]{standalone}
\begin{document}
\input{appendix}
\end{document}

.

% appendix.tex
\documentclass[crop=false]{standalone}
\usepackage{listings}
\begin{document}
\lstinputlisting{t402620.tex}
\end{document}

Which gives me the error:

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument> ... \iffalse }{}\lst@ifnumberbychapter 
                                                  \newcounter {lstlisting}[c...
l.1576   \fi}

The problem here is that you are using the subpreambles option together with a verbatim package like listings. Something breaks when standalone copies the preamble of the subfile over to the main file. Removing subpreambles and coping the preamble of the appendix to the main file fixes the problem. I guess that is the way to go for now.