Stefano Franchi wrote: > Here is the question: will the preambles of the individual chapters be > completely ignored once they are included in the master document,
Yes. > or is > it advisable to erase the child preambles when typesetting the master > document (as Georg seems to hint)? Since the latter option is obviously > quite cumbersome, this gives rise to a further question: is my strategy > completely silly and if so are there better ways to solve with this > problem? No, this strategy looks good to me. I suggested to erase the child preamble if it is identical to the master preamble because otherwise you can easily forget that there is another one in the master, and if you change one you also have to change the other. In your case I guess that the child preamble is identical for all child documents, therefore I would put it into a separete .tex file and include that in the preamble of all child documents. Georg
