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Hello. First of all: Thanks to all developers. I enjoy using lyx nearly each day. But I also like to draw pictures and plots with pgf/tikz as input-tex file to lyx which works fine, too. My problem: when I have a lot of complex pictures and a lot of plots with thousands of data points, that makes compiling take extremely long time and sometimes don't work because pdflatex has not enough memory. There is a very nice solution in the actual tikz package where we just put to preamble: \usetikzlibrary{external} \tikzexternalize And compile with: pdflatex -shell-escape $$i This automatically starts a single compiler run for each tikzpicture and produces a pdf-file when there isn't already the corresponding pdf-file to the tikzpicture. In the document the tikzpicture is automatically replaced with \includegraphics{the existing pdf-file} in compilation. So if the plots or pictures need not to be updated this speeds up the compilation with about factor 100 for my case. Lyx-solution: As I read in http://www.lyx.org/announce/2_0_1.txt there is an interesting new option for read external files from ERT that could be used to get it working. But I wasn't lucky till now. Could you please help a bit. I suppose a solution would make Lyx more attractive for others user, too. Example file, compiled in Kile: with pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape '%source' =========================== \documentclass{article}=========================== I tryed to use a ./ before the individual filename or folder command (myfolder must exist) to get it working in Lyx and also the Converter-Option: "pdflatex -shell-escape $$i" but that did not work. Hope you have an idea where to look for the solution. Therefore you may have a look at tex/latex/pgf/utilities/tikzexternal.sty Best regards. Tobias |
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