On 01/07/2012 03:32 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Peter Baumgartner wrote:
1) Editing the child file:
It says in the manual that the master document will be used in the
background by LyX when you are editing the child file after you have
specified the master in the child file using the menu
Document->Settings->Document Class.
NB: This only applies if you compile the document *as a whole* (i.e. from the
master or via master-buffer-view). If you compile the child document
separately, it is (intentionally) completely isolated. So you can (and must)
specify specific settings for the child.
This is because there are many use cases where it makes sense to have a
document as a child and as a single document. Think about beamer handouts
including beamer presentations, for instance.
I understand that the situation for usecases like yours can be improved (see
below). But we must keep the possibility to have documents as children and
single documents at the same time.
This is in my opinion not completely true. At least it did not work with
modules for me. In order to prevent error messages I had to replicate the
module configuration for each file separately (eg to include the Logical
Markup Module for each file.)
see above.
What it would be nice to have would be some way for the child to inherit
its preamble and other settings from the master. This could be a
document setting. I've thought about this quite a lot, but never done
anything about it.
3) UI glitches with "Child Documents" in the Document Settings:
Whenever I start LyX I get my window of the child document settings always
reset in a way where I can't see the full name of the child files. (see
picture).
Yes, this should be easy to solve (please file a bug report).
I guess this is just a wrong setting in the ui file.
Richard
