Thanks BH, I had missed that setting, or completely misunderstood what it did. (At the moment, I'm much too addled to figure out which.) Unfortunately, I'm not sure that it did me much good. Even after enabling it, the book still takes ages to compile.
But it would probably take ages if I exported to LaTeX and compiled there, as well. I suppose that is the price that I pay for having a very complicated document and desiring beautiful typesetting. Even so, I'm sure that I will survive. Cheers, Rob On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:12 AM, BH wrote: > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Rob Oakes <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I was also hoping to control other files. Can I have LyX keep other output >>> and aux files, so that latex and bibtex can run fewer times and produce the >>> output faster (example, references and bibs). My understanding is that >>> everything is wiped out if I close and reopen. This can waste time, >> >> >> I am very well acquainted with this particular complaint. I've been working >> on a book draft that has several thousand pictures (screenshots, example >> mockups, etc). Building the entire draft can take on the order of 15 - 20 >> minutes. If there was a way not to have to start over every time I run >> xelatex, that would be marvelous. > > Did you miss this one? -- > > Preferences > File Handling > Converters > Converter File Cache > (enable the check box) > > BH
