Florin Oprina wrote:
> Thanks. I was under the impression that I don't have to compile the master.
> I thought I can compile only the child document and still get the common
> macros and settings.
No (intentionally not). Because one might *want* to have different settings in
the childs.
> The reason I wanted this is because I have a rather large document and I
> use XeTeX, which is really slow. Compiling the entire file takes ages, so I
> wanted to split it into smaller chunks. I guess the solution is to just
> copy the preamble into each child document.
In this case, I'd suggest to put the preamble's content into a file
"mypreamble.tex" which is saved in the folder of the LyX files, and put
\input{mypreamble.tex} into the preamble of each file (master and childs).
This way, you only need to do changes/additions in one central place.
Jürgen
