On 6.1.2010 10:08, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
I'm a new comer to Lyx, and reading some of the tute and skim reading
topics of interest the rest.
I'm still left with a question. (hope I didn't miss it)
If creating a book with a couple hundred pages, do I put it all in
one big lyx file, or do I split it across multiple files (say one
file per chapter),
You can choose either way.
and somehow pull each chapter into book with some sort of include
command?
Yes, you can insert a child via the menu "Insert->File->Child Document".
I know other programs would suggest the multiple document way so you
don't have to scroll around a single massive file looking for the
area you want to work on, however the navigator in Lyx would seem to
mitigate that effect.
I just want to understand the Lyx way of structuring a large book.
I'm guessing if Lyx does support files for each chapter, then the
navigator would not 'span' the multiple files allowing jumping from
chapter to chapter?
It does span the multiple files, it computes the correct chapter
numbers and so on..
Also the book will have a large number of images, do you usually put
them all in one directory or put them in some sort of hierarchical
directory structure.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Steve
Vincent
Have a look here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis. Those are
basically all books split into several files.
Petr
