Re: cross-references missing when compiling child-document
Stefan Verhaegh wrote: > For the last two years I have been a very happy user of Lyx (currently > version 1.6.5 on Windows XP in combination with TexLive 2009) for writing > my PhD thesis. > > But now I have stumbled across something strange in relation to > cross-references since I have split up my thesis into a master document > with child-documents for the different chapters: > * whenever I compile the child-documents into pdf, this results in > cross-references being replaced with "??" double question-marks. > * whenever I compile the masterdocument this results in correct references > to chapters, sections or pagenumbers. > > Is this behaviour a bug, feature or user error? If you are talking to references which point to labels outside the given child: yes, this is expected behaviour. LaTeX cannot know the exact references as long as only the child is compiled. One solution to output only a child, but with correct references, is the LaTeX feature \includeonly (this requires compilation of the whole document as well, though). Alas, this does not work well with current LyX. The next major release (1.7 or 2.0) will have proper support for this. Jürgen
cross-references missing when compiling child-document
Hi For the last two years I have been a very happy user of Lyx (currently version 1.6.5 on Windows XP in combination with TexLive 2009) for writing my PhD thesis. But now I have stumbled across something strange in relation to cross-references since I have split up my thesis into a master document with child-documents for the different chapters: * whenever I compile the child-documents into pdf, this results in cross-references being replaced with "??" double question-marks. * whenever I compile the masterdocument this results in correct references to chapters, sections or pagenumbers. Is this behaviour a bug, feature or user error? Unfortunately I could not find the answer in the Help documentation. The "additional features", section 3.2.2 "3.2.2 Cross-References Between Files" reads the following: "This section is somewhat out of date. Need to describe default master documents and how children are opened when the master is. [[FIXME]]" Also searching the lyx-user list archives I could not find an answer. Although using a "one-big-document" approach is an easy solution for correct cross-references in the pdf-output, I would prefer the elegance of a modular workflow based on a single master-document and multiple child-documents. Especially as in this stage I am working with different people on different chapters at the same time. thanks in advance for any further suggestions, Stefan Verhaegh
