Hi all, My 377 page "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist", compiled from a shellscript that starts by adding customization material and ends by displaying the finished PDF, takes 18 seconds on my 16GB RAM, AMD A6-6400K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics, dual core at 3.9Ghz.
This document consists of one LyX file. I've always used one LyX file and never a master/children document setup. The reasons I never went master/children are: 1. At the >500 page docs I do, a single file compiles well and presents no problems with viewing or editing. 2. I don't split books between authors. 3. During the many years I've been on this list, I've seen a heck of a lot of people posting strange problems with master/children document setups. I don't know whether compiling single file would be significantly faster, significantly slower, or for practical purposes equal to master/children. But I imagine it would take about 1/2 hour to find out, simply by copying the master to a different filename, and then replacing each child reference with that child's LyX text. Doing it this way leaves the original master/children version untouched, so if there's no difference it can continue to be used. If the one-file method is significantly faster, a regression test and a few renames enable the one-file method to be used into the future, with the master/children as a backup. SteveT
