Including citations/references, or even telling Lyx that they *might* be used (see below), slows down PDF preview quite a bit, ie Document->View(PDF). Is there a way to temporarily turn off the 3-pass system (~3 calls to pdflatex interspersed by calls to biber or bibtex)? Of course, it's then fine for all citations to appear as "labels" or [?] .
This is particularly noticeable when Lyx 2.3.0 bibliography "style" is set to biblatex/biber, in which case Lyx *always* seems to use 3 passes whether there are citations or bibliography or not. The speed is no problem for final production, but a bit annoying when trying to get a quick preview. To be clear: my preferred default for all documents, whether they include references or not, would be to set Document->Settings->Bibliography->Citation_style->Style_format to "biblatex". But this is annoyingly slow on some documents. Setting the same thing to "bibtex" still leads to 3 passes if any citations/bibliography are present--- as it should--- but with bibtex at least Lyx is then smart enough to just do 1 pass if there are no citations/bibliography. However, biblatex is better, so I'd prefer it to be the default... So 2 questions here: - (less important) with biblatex/biber, can the 3 passes automatically be reduced to 1 when there are no "live" citations or bibliographies, eg not in any active branches? This already happens with bibtex. - (more useful) can the 3 passes be reduced to 1 regardless of biblatex vs bibtex, by just changing one thing somewhere? And yes, this will lead to [?] and/or printing-the-label type citations. A "Document->settings->bibliography->turn_off_citations_and_biblio" box would be perfect longer-term. But a hack would be fine for now ;) FWIW I am using Lyx 2.3.0 under Windows 10--- "official" biblatex/biber support only appeared in Lyx 2.3. Thanks Mark
