Right. That’s even better. Thanks. Patrick
> On 12 Mar 2020, at 06:46, Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de> wrote: > > On 11/3/20 22:44, Patrick De Visschere wrote: >>> On 11 Mar 2020, at 17:58, Daniel <xraco...@gmx.de <mailto:xraco...@gmx.de>> >>> 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 > > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
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