Combining multiple org files as chapters in a thesis

Combining multiple org files as chapters in a thesis

[Subhasis Ray]

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Hi,
 I am trying to write my thesis using org-mode and followed this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-12/msg00034.html.
But instead of putting everything in one file, I was creating one file for
each chapter with the assumption that like LaTeX I should be able to
combine them in one master file.
I am able to export each chapter individually into PDF. I tried to include
them in the master file as this:

#+include "~/Documents/thesis/introduction.org"
#+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter1.org"
#+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter2.org"
#+include "~/Documents/thesis/discussion.org"

 but when I tried to export the master file, I get error messages on
figures that I created using tikz package (topbot is a shape I define using
tikz):

----8<------->8-----
Latexmk: Reference `fig:figure1' on page 18 undefined
...
...
! Package pgfkeys Error: I do not know the key '/tikz/topbot' and I am
going to
 ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it.

----8<------->8-----

I have the same LaTeX headers in each file. I tried moving it to the top of
the master file but that did not help.
Concatenating all the files into one sort-of works but when I replaced
biblatex' \printbibliography[heading=none] at the end of each file with
\newrefsection[biliographyfile] in the combined file, the reference
sections become empty.

Is there a nice way to combine multiple org-files that I am missing?

Thanks,
  Subha

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Re: Combining multiple org files as chapters in a thesis

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Subhasis,

Just a small remark:

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 06:52:56PM +0530, Subhasis Ray wrote:
> Hi,
>  I am trying to write my thesis using org-mode and followed this thread:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-12/msg00034.html.
> But instead of putting everything in one file, I was creating one file for
> each chapter with the assumption that like LaTeX I should be able to
> combine them in one master file.
> I am able to export each chapter individually into PDF. I tried to include
> them in the master file as this:
> 
> #+include "~/Documents/thesis/introduction.org"
> #+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter1.org"
> #+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter2.org"
> #+include "~/Documents/thesis/discussion.org"
> 

I believe your syntax here is incorrect.  It should be:

  #+include: "/path/to/org/file.org"

Welcome to Org mode; I wrote my thesis in Org mode last year although I
went with the one-big-file way.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Combining multiple org files as chapters in a thesis

[Subhasis Ray]

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Subhasis,
>
> Just a small remark:
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 06:52:56PM +0530, Subhasis Ray wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I am trying to write my thesis using org-mode and followed this thread:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2007-12/msg00034.html.
> > But instead of putting everything in one file, I was creating one file
> for
> > each chapter with the assumption that like LaTeX I should be able to
> > combine them in one master file.
> > I am able to export each chapter individually into PDF. I tried to
> include
> > them in the master file as this:
> >
> > #+include "~/Documents/thesis/introduction.org"
> > #+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter1.org"
> > #+include "~/Documents/thesis/chapter2.org"
> > #+include "~/Documents/thesis/discussion.org"
> >
>
> I believe your syntax here is incorrect.  It should be:
>
>   #+include: "/path/to/org/file.org"
>
> Welcome to Org mode; I wrote my thesis in Org mode last year although I
> went with the one-big-file way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thanks for your response. I just checked that both forms work. Actually I
had inserted the files interactively using the org key binding: <I TAB.
I did come across your posts in the mailing list. Your contributions have
been useful.
Subhasis

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Re: Combining multiple org files as chapters in a thesis

[Subhasis Ray]

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On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Subhasis Ray <ray.subhasis@gmail.com>wrote:

> Concatenating all the files into one sort-of works but when I replaced
> biblatex' \printbibliography[heading=none] at the end of each file with
> \newrefsection[biliographyfile] in the combined file, the reference
> sections become empty.
>

I figured out that I misunderstood the docs for \newrefsection which is
showed with example here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2503555/using-latex-how-can-i-have-a-list-of-references-at-the-end-of-each-section

Now I can make the chapter title the top level header in each file and then
put \newrefsection just after it and insert \printbibliography at the end
and the includes work with proper bibliography. Now the tikz issue remains
to be resolved. I'd love it if "#+TITLE: chapter title" automatically
became a section and everything under that turned into subsections at
proper depths though.
Thanks,
  Subhasis

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