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As far as I understand the subfiles for use in the subfiles package should all end with \end{document}, so that they can be built independently. However, I'm finding that, in order for each of my subfiles to be included in the output of my main.tex file, I need to delete the \end{document} line. I'm using TeXstudio.

My main file looks like this:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{expl3}
\usepackage{subfiles}
\begin{document}
    \subfile{title}
    \subfile{introduction}
\end{document}

If the subfiles look like this:

\documentclass[main]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
    title content OR introduction content
\end{document}

then I get only the content of the first subfile (title.tex) in main.pdf, even if the content is as simple as just the word 'content'. If they look like this instead:

\documentclass[main]{subfiles}
\begin{document}
    content

then I get the content of both.

Phelype Oleinik
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Ben
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    Welcome to TeX.SX! My guess is that the cause of your problem is a version mismatch: a new subfiles package (v2.2) with an old LaTeX (older than Oct 2020), or the other way around. You find the version numbers in the log file. I see there preloaded format=pdflatex 2021.4.16 and subfiles 2020/11/14 v2.2. – gernot Jul 13 '21 at 15:48
  • Thank you! I had a look and my pdflatex version is 2019.1.4, which would presumably be the problem. – Ben Jul 15 '21 at 10:14
  • After fully updating MiKTeX it's all working now, so it definitely was a version mismatch. – Ben Jul 15 '21 at 11:26

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The observed behavior may arise from a version mismatch: a new subfiles package (v2.2) with an old LaTeX (older than Oct 2020), or the other way around. You find the version numbers in the log file. I see there preloaded format=pdflatex 2021.4.16 and subfiles 2020/11/14 v2.2.

Best use the package manager of your distribution to update all formats and packages.

gernot
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