Peter Baumgartner wrote:
> I'm writing on a long document (book with various chapters) with LyX 1.6.5
>  on OS X 10.5.8. After trying to prepare a master file with a preamble
>  valid for all files and to work on each file separately I noticed through
>  different posts on this forum that the command \includeonly does not work.
>  At least that was the discussion on an older lyx version but I assume that
>  this is still the case (independently that in the actual manual the
>  "\includeonly" command is still mentioned as it would function properly).
>  Is this right?

Yes. It does not work since LyX uses specific filenames for the compilation of 
the document in the temporary directory.

> So I tried to separate the preamble commands in a special file
> "preamble.tex" and \input it into every file. But this didn't work. It
> generated many errors, all of them - as far as I can see - related with my
> bibliography. As I'm using biblatex with the module biblatex-citation-style
> I assume that this is also the problem. Can anyone suggest how to proceed?

It is supposed to work. Could you post an example file?

Jürgen

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