Dear lyx-users, I am writing a paper that consists of a primary text and a separate supplement (e.g. a web appendix or supplementary online materials). Because there are many cross-references between the two documents (e.g. "For details, see section S2 of the Supplement.", "Here, we provide additional detail for the analysis presented in section 3 of the main text"), I have set up both as child documents of a common master document, i.e.:
master.lyx main.lyx supplement.lyx This has a number of nice features, especially: the cross-references are available in the lyx pull-down menu, the cross-reference fields present nicely on-screen. The issue I'm having occurs when I try to compile the document. If I compile the full document using master-lyx, the cross-references compile nicely but a single PDF is produced. I can split this manually in Acrobat or pdftk but this has some drawbacks, especially (a) both PDFs contain the bookmarks for both the main text and the supplement, so these have to be cleaned up manually; (b) hyperlinked cross-references pointing to the other document now point to somewhere that no longer exists. If I compile the child documents separately, I do get separate PDFs but the cross-references no longer work. Ideally, I would be able to produce (i) two separate PDFs with (ii) hyperlinked internal cross-references and (iii) non-hyperlinked references to the other document (i.e. as produced by \ref*{label} rather than \ref{label}). I would settle for (i) two separate PDFs with (iv) no hyperlinked references. I have experimented a bit with Inserting supplement.lyx into main.lyx inside a LyX Note, but this was not entirely successful. The references presented correctly onscreen in LyX (i.e. no "BROKEN:") but did not compile ("??"). Any suggestions would be welcome. Best, Bert