Projects

TeXnicCenter manages your documents always as projects. Even if there is only one file (i.e. a letter), you have to create a project for this document. It is wise to create a directory for each project. Please refer to the section Creating Project for more information.

A project contains the following informations:

- Path of the project directory
- Path of the project's main file

Always put the files of one project in the project's directory. One of these files has to be the project's main file. The main file is the file, that is passed to the LaTeX compiler. If a document is split into several LaTeX files, they should be included into the project's main file with the commands `\input` or `\include`.

TeXnicCenter needs to know the main file of a project. Specify the main file, when creating the project, or change it later, by choosing the menu item 'Properties...' from the menu'Project' and changing the path 'Main file'.