[texhax] Re: The minimum one needs to write a book?

[Martin Heller]

leon wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm new to this group and LaTeX. I need to write a long document with
> lots of formulas. The structure of my book is as follows,
> 
> Table of Contents
> Preface
> Chapter 1
> Chapter 2
> ...
> References
> 
> If possible, can I have `Preface' and `Chapters' in separate files?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 

This is standard.

\tableofcontents
\include{preface}
\include{chap1}
etc

This sort of thing is covered in almost any introduction to 
LaTeX. See 
<http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=man-latex>.