Abdel,
thank you for suggesting to subdivide the manuscript. (It grows longer
and longer ...) I wanted to try myself but was hesitating. The main
disadvantage of the long manuscript is that pdflatex takes a while.
Will this be shortened by subdividing the manuscript?
If you pdflatex from the main document no.
Can I restrict output to just the chapter I am working at?
Yes.
And what about cross references to other chapters. I understand that
this can be done, but will the time pdflatex takes be kept down?
There's no difference AFAIK. You just have to open the main document
first and load the child document from there (clicking on the button
"input")
I ask this because you seem to be quite experienced with all this. If
you simply give me a "green light" I shall try. I simply want to avoid
spending too much time in an attempt that ultimately yields no
benefits for me.
Go ahead :-)
By the way, scrolling with the sidebar is much smoother in 137, as
compared to 141 (without natbib) even if this is no performance test.
I like it better. Why has it been changed?
I think the painting routines had been rewritten so it would take
sometime before it is as optimized as 1.3.7
I would appreciate if you could advise me either "go ahead with
dividing the manuscript" or "keep the manuscript together", given my
objective of working smoothly on the manuscript and compilking it
occasionally with pdflatex. The slight delays that bother you are not
that important in my case. At the moment I use Lyx 137 anyway, until
the navigation issue is solved (which is important for me).
Thanks again for your consideration.
You're welcome,
Abdel.
