My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents.
DVI generation takes around 50 seconds, but most days I only run that a few times, so it's not a problem. Splitting also makes version control a little easier, too. One more tip: create subdirectories for your embedded figures. I didn't and I wish I had (but I'm not spending the time to re-organise now that it's finished) A satisfied LyX-user, Cameron. Piero Faustini wrote: > Hello fellow LyX users, > I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different > files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the > file > into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time > during the writing.