On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:14:07 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > This isn't responsive to your question, but I've had great success > keeping my whole 108K word document in a single file. I see an awful lot > of questions on the LyX list concerning how to get child docs to work, > and am always glad I don't need to worry about that stuff -- my docs > just work. >
It works too. My reason for splitting is twofold. 1) responsiveness. I find that with larger documents (I'm almost at 50K words) response becomes sluggish. 2) I work on little bits at a time (It's a novel if that matters any) and I find that having to focus on just one chapter works best, especially when I need to move around to get my bearings back. Currently, I have a scratch document which I empty, work on a specific part, then when I'm done, I copy the result to the correct location in the larger document, then rinse and repeat. I figured that child documents would work better with this writing approach. Thanks for your insight, L
