On Wednesday 11 March 2009 10:37:18 am Sophie (itsme213) wrote: > What is a rough page-size limit for a single-file Lyx book (assuming pretty > current hardware, plenty of RAM etc)? > > Thanks
I don't know what it might be, or what your tolerance is for waits during compiles to PDF, but I can tell you my 100,000 word, 309 page "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" works fine as a whole in LyX, and did even back in the days when I was using a dual Celeron 450 with 512MB of RAM. My new book, which is 68,000 words and 290 pages, takes 12 seconds to compile to PDF on my "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7200 @ 2.53GHz", with 8GB of RAM, running Mandriva Linux 2008 (Spring). In my opinion, no matter how big your book will be, LyX will scale, because if worst comes to worst you can divide the book into parts, chapters or whatever, work on them that way, and when you're done compile the whole thing as a unit. Lots of people on this list do that. There may be reasons to worry about using LyX for a book project, but book size isn't one of them. HTM SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
