On 8/13/18 8:21 PM, mark.braving...@data61.csiro.au wrote: > 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.
Not sure how helpful this is now: But you could export to LaTeX and run everything else manually. Riki
