Stephen George wrote:
Hi,
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), and somehow pull each chapter into book with some sort of
include command?
Whatever you like. Splitting into several files is very useful when
there are several authors. It can also be useful in that you
can do "view->PDF" for a single file quickly. This operation
can take some time (several minutes) for a complete book.
Otherwise, it is a matter of taste, as LyX will cope with anything.
One big file, many subfiles. All the figures in one place, or
sorted into per-chapter folders.
This can also be changed later. You can split up a large
document by pasting whole chapters into new documents. For going the
other way, LyX can insert the contents of several documents into one.
Helge Hafting
