On 2010-01-13, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: >> >doesn't work because of different preambles and different >> >needs of manuals. >> >
>> Which I still don't understand. > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5460 only repeats this claim: to make that work through master/child is painfull due to the different demands of the manuals (preamble stuff, etc). but no further explanation/evidence. IMO * Creating a master file does not necessarily interfere with the child documents. All manuals should remain compilable as stand-alone documents. Maybe some adjustments would be needed to solve conflicting requirements. * Compiling the master would of course require all the requirements -- which not everyone has on his/her machine. However anyone able to compile all manuals should be able to compile the master. * Even if compiling the master proves impossible with LaTeX, it might be possible to export it to HTML. If a master file (without changes to the content of current manuals) is possible, we can decide on using this for cross-links (very helpfull in HTML and hyperlinked PDF). Also, while Uwe wrote in a comment to #5460: I don't see benefits of a single book as it would then also contain duplicate information. I would prefer to replace this duplicate information by navigable references to a "canonical" place. Günter
