On 2009-02-02, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I have converted from a big document to a single small master document
> that includes the separate chapters.
...
> Here are some problems I've run into.
> 2. It is much nicer to work on the separate chapters in separate
> files. They are smaller, more manageable. If you are smart and you
> keep the chapters in separate directories, your life will be happier.
This is my experience too. I also put the graphic files for the chapter
in the same subdir.
> Even though each chapter setup indicates that it has a master
> document, and I *thought* Lyx would get a pre-amble from that master
> document, it appears to have no effect when I look at chapters.
I prefer it this way as it allows a "specific" preamble.
> So I end up copying the whole preamble from the master document into
> each chapter. Boring.
I put the common configuration into a file "preamble.tex" and include it
in the preamble with \input{preamble.tex} (in main.lyx) and
\input{../preamble.tex} in the sub-documents (as they are in subdirs).
Also, I use grep and replace in a text editor a lot for changes in all
the sub-documents.
> Also, it is a problem that Chapter numbering is not correct when you
> work on chapters by themselves. There is an easy fix to set the
> chapter counter in ERT at the top of the document, but it is a bit of
> a pain.
You can also set it in the LaTeX preamble -- this is an advantage of the
sub-document-specific preamble.
> Another problem I notice is that it is tedious to experiment with
> different document settings when working on separate chapters. If the
> main document, the one that has all the includes, is KOMA script, but
> then a chapter is just regular book, then when you use LyX to try view
> the whole document, you will get a lot of warnings about child
> documents of different types every time you view.
This was already discussed once but seems to be forgotten or still
unresolved.
Günter
