I've read about the import package and am now trying to use it in my document, but I only run into errors.
I have a main file named /ProjectPath/header.tex
which loads all packages, etc. Additionally, some further customisations are located in /ProjectPath/header/
and are loaded by /ProjectPath/header.tex
.
Now I have several chapters like /ProjectPath/chap1/
etc. Usually, I had all my files (the header files, the chapter files, the subchapter files, etc.) in one single folder and could easily compile Chapter1:
\input{header}
\begin{document}
…
\end{document}
To get more clarity it is of course useful to put the files into folders. I've read the documentation about the import package but I do not understand how to use the \import
command.
Lets say I have following configuration:
/ProjectPath/header.tex %% main file
/ProjectPath/header/custom1.tex %% is loaded by header.tex
/ProjectPath/header/custom2.tex %% is loaded by header.tex
/ProjectPath/chap1/part1.tex
/ProjectPath/chap1/part2.tex
/ProjectPath/chap1/part3.tex
/ProjectPath/chap1/part4.tex
/ProjectPath/chap1/chapter1.tex %% whole first chapter, can be compiled separately
/ProjectPath/chap2/part1.tex
/ProjectPath/chap2/part2.tex
/ProjectPath/chap2/part3.tex
/ProjectPath/chap2/part4.tex
/ProjectPath/chap2/chapter2.tex %% whole second chapter, can be compiled separately
/ProjectPath/Document.tex %% whole document, includes both chapters
Of course, now I can't use \input{../header.tex}
in /ProjectPath/chap1/chapter1.tex
. I am sure, I can get this fixed with the import package, but how?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Edit: Sorry for missing MWE. Here it is:
In the simplest case I have the following files:
/header.tex
/header/custom.tex %% is imported by header.tex
/chap1/part1.tex %% loads header.tex
Contents:
%% header.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{import}
\subimport{header}{custom}
%% part1.tex
\input{../header}
\begin{document}
Text.
\end{document}
Compiling part1.tex yields in:
! LaTeX Error: File `custom.tex' not found.
Latex Error: ../header.tex:4 Emergency stop.
What's wrong? I'm a bit slow today, I still don't get the correct use of the import package…
\input
and\subimport
(cf. my answer).