On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Barth, Christian (ITEP) <[email protected]> wrote: > I am writing my Ph.D. thesis with LyX. The document has grown quite large > with lots of figures, references and equations. If I try to create a .pdf of > the whole document using pdflatex a message appears several times which > says: > > > > The command > > pdflatex -synctex=-1 "Thesis.tex" > > has not yet completed. > > Do you want to stop it? > > > > I have to click "Let it run" several times to complete the document. It is > really annoying. However, it only happens if I create the whole document. > The individual chapters can be created without this message appearing. Thus, > I think it is a timeout and has something to do with the size of the > document. > > Is it possible to increase or even disable the timeout for pdflatex? > Be aware that when the dialogue appears the document compilation doesn't stop. It actually continues to compile in the background and even if you don't answer the dialogue in time the document should still be sent to PDF. An option to configure the timeout would be nice though.
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