Hello all,
I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I'm writing a scientific document that will
have around 200 pages or more, with a lot of equations, figures and tables.
One month ago there was no problem for my to work with the document,
although it took some minutes to "render" the document to PDF (using option
View ---> PDF). So after I considered the possibility to work with
different files for every new section of the document because in this way
it would be faster the individual compilation. I added the new lyx files
into the big document using the option "Insert--->File", and selecting
after "External" or "Include", indifferently. Using this method each new
section was written very fast, because I could compile only these part and
see the changes. After I had included 4 new sections (4 new files) I tried
to compile the whole document with no problem, but it took a lot of time,
more than an hour. Anyway I continued working, but my problem now is that I
have 10 new section and the compilation of the document is not feasible.
Last weekend I left my computer compiling during 2 days and today it was
already working in it !!
I've tried with "View--->DVI", but it takes also a lot of time. I've
searched for info in the lyx mail list, but nothing related with my case.
Later I've done a test; I've removed all the "includes", so the document
doesn't has to "load" the external lyx files, and in this case the
compilation was OK and it took some minutes. In other test I've created a
new empty lyx document and I've added the 10 sections with the
"Insert--->File" option, and in this case the document was compiled on one
minute !!!
So now I'm blocked and I don't know what to do. Maybe there is a bug with
lyx or I think that as I use a lot of different figure formats (jpg,bmp and
eps) the program can't handle this, but I don't think so; lyx is announced
capable of working with very big documents. I've also observed that telling
lyx not to use the "temp" directory, sometimes the compilation is faster,
am I right ? Using a temporary directory makes the compilation of a
document slower ?
Could somebody help me ?
Thanks in advance.
