Graphicspath and standalone

Question

I have a standalone setup with the following file structure

A
├── A.tex
└── sections
    ├── B
    │   ├── Bimages
    │   │   └── cat.png
    │   └── B.tex
    └── C
        ├── Cimages
        └── C.tex

I have a main tex file called A and two subfiles B and C, such that the content of A is a title page then B and C concatenated. B has its own images directory, which is referenced in B.tex using \graphicspath{ {./Bimages/} } and C similarly has ./Cimages/. B and C compile separately perfectly well, however, when I compile A, I get LaTeX Warning: File Bimages/cat.png not found on input line 89.

Is this expected behaviour with standalone? Will it not account for relative file paths in subdirectories? If so, is there a way to work around this such that I can organise my images into separate folders(preferably without having to do \graphicspath{ {./sections/B/Bimages} {./sections/C/Cimages} } in A.tex, as I may have many more similar directories in the future.

Answer 1

you might want to change the way you import your subfiles

\input just copies the text content of B.tex into A.tex before compiling.
That makes A look for the graphicspath in it's home directory (which is /A/)

\include (I think) creates aux files for every sub-file and therefore might be able to find the correct subpath (for example /A/B/Bimages/)

I DID NOT TEST THIS!

see this for reference

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If that does not do the trick, then you could maybe switch to using global paths for your images
(like "~/foo/bar/A/B/Bimages/" instead of "./B/Bimages/").