On 11/3/20 22:44, Patrick De Visschere wrote:
On 11 Mar 2020, at 17:58, Daniel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2020-03-11 08:38, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2020, 15:17 +0100 schrieb Daniel:
However, often I would like to preview only one child document (e.g.
one
chapter) while maintaining counters and references. Is there a quick
way
to do so?
You mean, without the master? No. I don't think that's possible in
LaTeX either.
Jürgen
I see. I wasn't that this is pure LaTeX magic. I guess, I should then
just set up my master in such a way that excluding all children except
for one chapter leads to my desired result.
Daniel
Take a look here:
http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~rdale/resources/writingnotes/latexstruct.html
<http://web.science.mq.edu.au/~rdale/resources/writingnotes/latexstruct.html>
With \includeonly{somechapter} in the preamble (of the master) one can
limit the output to that chapter.
But one must have compiled the complete document once before this will
work, because the .aux files of all childs are needed.
This works straight away with e.g. TexShop.
With lyx one must first compile (only once I think) the complete
document and then one can enter the \includeonly{name_used_by_lyx}
command in the preamble of the master.
You will have to look up the correct name in the master.tex file
generated by lyx (in the temp directory) since the filenames are modified.
Thanks for bringing this up. I was looking for it too.
Patrick
Patrick, I think the functionality your are mentioning that LaTeX has
for this is actually already integrated into LyX. Have a look at
Document > Settings > Child Documents. Here you can set which child
documents to put into the \includeonly command and also choose whether
the aux file of the whole document should be generated or not (via the
maintain counters and references checkbox).
Normally, I had some content in my master document that was not part of
a child document, e.g. title, table of contents, bibliography, etc. But
now, I just put those into their own child documents ("front matter" and
"back matter"). Then I can compile just a single chapter using LyX's
functionality. Now that I think of it, pretty straight forward to
arrange a document like this.
Since it is so straight forward and going back to the master to set to
only include one chapter is a bit cumbersome, maybe LyX could give one a
special Preview option on child documents, called "Preview Master with
Child Document Only" or so. This option will typeset the master with the
\includeonly command containing only the current child document while
maintaining counters and references. That would be very handy, if one
needs to send or print out only single chapters without any other material.
Daniel
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