On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 14:59:54 +0100
Klaus-Dieter Bauer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm recently having problems with LyX compiling exceptionally slowly
> (compared to plain latex editors). Checking the log, I noticed that
> LyX calls pdflatex a full 5 times for my thesis 

First question is whether this long compile significantly slows your
workflow. If not, just keep things as they are.

If the compile significantly impedes your workflow, I'd suggest making
yourself a compile shellscript having lyx --export and other commands.
You can pretty much take LyX config out of the picture by exporting to
LaTeX, and then running [pdfla|la|lua]tex once for the document, and
once more for table references. It's a lot easier to optimize a
shellscript than trial-and-error LyX's conversion technique, which in
my opinion is more a convenience than a tool for quality.

SteveT

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