On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 11:20:22AM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 4/5/21 11:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 05/04/2021 à 16:59, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >> This is currently more of a theoretical question since I don't have > >> time to work on it. > >> > >> I'm working for the first time on a document with lots of child > >> documents. Export of the child documents is sequential. Is there a > >> reason they can't be processed concurrently? > >> > >> I'm guessing this isn't relevant for most users since export from LyX > >> to TeX seems pretty fast to me in most cases. What makes it slow in > >> my case is that the child documents use knitr, so to get the exported > >> TeX to be able to compile the parent an R script is run for each of > >> them. > > > > I do not understand: if you use knitr, each child potentially depends > > on the output of the previous ones. I am surprised actually that R is > > ran separately. I never thought about that, to be frank. > > That's an issue even with pure LaTeX, isn't it? Page and section numbers > at least will depend upon earlier documents, and there might be macros > in the earlier documents that are needed in later ones.
Indeed, it might be interesting to consider a feature that would "in-line" child documents. This would allow a child document to use a macro that's defined in a previous child document. Scott
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