Include *.sty file from a super/subdirectory of main *.tex file

Question

I want to share a latex document via git with many other people. Therefore we decided to put all the special sty files, that are not present in everyones latex-installation, in

Answer 1

You can use Makefiles as suggested above. Another option is CMake. I didn't test for parent directories.

If you have the following file structure:

    ├── CMakeLists.txt
    ├── cmake
    │   └── UseLATEX.cmake
    ├── img
    │   └── logo.jpg
    ├── lib
    │   └── framed.sty
    └── main.tex

• you should have CMake installed, instructions on CMake resources

• UseLATEX.cmake can be downloaded from here

• then inside the CMakeLists.txt

  ╚═$ cat CMakeLists.txt
  cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.6)
  set(PROJECT_NAME_STR myProject)
  project(${PROJECT_NAME_STR})
  
  set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
  include(UseLATEX)
  
  ADD_LATEX_DOCUMENT(main.tex
                     IMAGE_DIRS img
                     DEFAULT_PDF
                     MANGLE_TARGET_NAMES)
  

• Some example content for main.tex (note the image)

  ╚═$ cat main.tex
  \documentclass{report}
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \begin{center}
    \includegraphics[width=300px]{img/logo.jpg}
  \end{center}
  
  \end{document}
  

• The lib directory has the *.sty files

• You can now compile:

  cd /directory/that/has/CMakeLists.txt/
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake ..
  make
  

• you can then view main.pdf which is in the build directory.