the ERT _hack_ does seem to work much better than adding self disappearing
spaces as i had been doing.
another useful thing would be to add something (ex '*' or '(modified)') to
the Documents menu items to show which documents have changed. this would be
useful even if the updating 'bug' is fixed.
mamato
On 12/5/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>- i have a multifile document (using inclusions). i often need to touch
> >>the main file to get up-to-date output, otherwise, it won't regenerate
> the
> >>included files which have changed.
> >>
> >
> >
> > this is starting to be quite annoying... and touching the main file
> doesnt
> > always regenerate the pdf with the latest changes... is there a way to
> 'make
> > clean'?
> I recognize the problem. Touching is annoying and one has to be carefull
> such
> one does not include a single space that lyx eats. Therefore I usually
> have an
> open ERT that I put a new whitespace into. I guess one could also have a
> comment
> environment and there include any crap.
> The thing is, one has to make sure the resulting latex file is different
> from
> the last.
>
> This brings me to a question for the developers. Is there a reason for not
> using
> the excellent program make to handle rebuilding of the document? When I
> like to
> view a document, it seems like all conversions are made over again even if
> they
> have not changed. I think make would handle the checking of new versions
> without much effort.
> I guess you don't want to use an additional program which has to be
> installed.
> However, make is pretty small, 130K on my computer.
>
> /johan
>
