I'm using the following tags to generate a project:
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\include{fm}
\mainmatter
\include{ch01}
...
\include{ch10}
\backmatter
\bibliographystyle{...}
\bibliography{...}
\printindent
\end{document}
This was produced the output in a nice manner, but today I saw some post regarding \usepackage{subfiles}, and the usage is:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{subfiles}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\subfile{fm}
\mainmatter
\subfile{ch01}
...
\subfile{ch10}
\backmatter
\bibliographystyle{...}
\bibliography{...}
\printindent
\end{document}
This also working fine, and this is allowed to treat each chapter as separate compilation, i.e., we able to use \documentclass...\end{document} in each file, but the first method doesn't allow to run each chapter as separate file.
Kindly suggest which one is opt to use, please
I'm not an expert in TeX, so can't able to take decision, please advise.
\includeis the standard latex command.subfilesis OK but is quite an invasive change as it has to change a lot of file handling, so you may get package conflicts. I would use the standard system until you are used to that but feel free to experiment with alternatives\includeby using\includeonly{ch10}this is good for quick editing when working on chapter 10. It formats a chapter10 not as a new document, which is better or worse depending on what you wantsubfilespackage, and also suggest to avoid thesubfilespackage unless really needed, for the reason David gave. Personally, I usually use\inputcommands in the main file and comment/uncomment them as needed.subfilespackage, so the recommendation is not to use it (as it potentially may have side-effects). Your question is not so specific that there is a clear-cut answer for other users as well. I know that there are quite some people out there who like to usesubfiles.