On Wed, 23 May 2018 13:52:29 +0200 Michael Berger <id...@online.de> wrote:
> Hello dear Lyxers, > > after upgrading LyX to version 2.2.3 opening and editing (linguistic) > papers made with earlier versions of LyX does work. > Conversion to PDF of each single child document works as well. But > trying to generate a PDF from the master document results in an > endless loop. In the 17 years I've used LyX, I've always put my whole book in one file (well, plus the layout file and any graphics), and everything worked beautifully. Most compiles less than 5 seconds, even on books exceeding 100K words. Meanwhile, in those 17 years, time after time I've heard people have trouble with master and child documents. If you're a publisher farming out individual chapters to individual authors, I understand the need for child documents. If you're writing a book exceeding 1000K words (this would be about 3000 standard paper or PDF pages), and you need to compile the document often, then I could see the need for master and children. Otherwise, I don't get it. Single LyX files work exceedingly well, while every couple months a report of trouble with master/children documents appears on this list. Why would one try master/children? SteveT Steve Litt June 2018 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
