On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Michael Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Scott, > Among other documents I wrote a bachelor and a master thesis (domain of > Linguistics) using quite a number of child documents using André Miede's > classicthesis-LyX-v4.1 > If I recall correctly then it is already included in Lyx /openSuse 12.3 > distro, or just download it from Miede's site. > > That is not only the most excellent template I came across but also a great > demonstration of how child documents brilliantly work together with their > master document. That example will surely answer all of your questions. > > Based on my experiences I should recommend to have ALL documents related to > your document in the same folder as also demonstrated in Miede's template. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > On 04/12/2015 06:46 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 07:41:18PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>> On 04/11/2015 06:17 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>>> >>>> I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting >>>> started with the basics. >>>> >>>> If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited >>> >>> >from the master? >>>> >>>> From the Embedded Objects manual: >>>> >>>> "A child document inherits elements from its master, for example the >>>> LaTeX preamble, the bibliography, and labels for cross-references." >>>> >>>> Does that sentence only refer to when compiling from the master >>>> document? >>> >>> Yes. If you compile the child by itself, it uses its own preamble. Same >>> for >>> other settings. >> >> OK. Do you agree that the above sentence from Embedded Objects manual is >> confusing? I think that one could understand it to mean that the child >> always inherits settings from the master, even when it's compiled >> on its own. >>> >>> This is very confusing, for lots of fairly good reasons. I'll try to >>> explain >>> later. >> >> If you have the time, I would be interested. Or if you can point me to >> other threads on the subject I could read those.
Thanks, Michael. I will check this out. It sounds like a good way of doing things once you get everything set up. Scott
