On 01-Apr-19 9:58 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I have a dissertation template for students at my University. There is a main thesis document and then the separate chapters are in subdirectories. (http://crmda.ku.edu/node/555)
Currently, in version, "KU-thesis-20190201.zip<http://crmda.dept.ku.edu/guides/43.KU_Thesis/KU-thesis-20190201.zip>", it appears to work for everybody to use LyX to edit either the main document or the individual chapters. However, I have students who want to use the dissertation template as raw LaTexX files, rather than within LyX. Here I run into a bad problem. In my 20190201 version, the people who want to edit the exported LaTeX file in raw LaTeX could not compile the document. There's an error about commands in the chapter heading that are only allowed in the document preamble. From that error message, I tracked back to changes I made and I understand what is going wrong. If I start with the master document and do Export to LaTeX (pdflatex), the individual chapter .tex files are created. They are not free-standing documents. At the top, there was no preamble. It starts in line 1 with the chapter name \chapter{Elementary Regression} and also the includegraphics lines have full project paths: \includegraphics[width=4in]{Chapter2/importfigs/carinced} Those chapters could not be compiled individually. I thought I'd get around this problem by using LyX to individually exporting each separate chapter as a tex document. I did not realize that caused an entirely different export than I got by starting with the master document in LyX and doing export LaTeX(pdflatex). My individually exported chapter files allows the users to edit the individual .tex chapters, but when they try to compile the master document, they get errors caused by the fact that the individual chapters have their own preambles AND the graphics paths are incorrect. Because I individually exported the .tex files within the Chapter directories, then the master document level Export to LaTeX does not replace the existing chapters. Thus I am allowed to zip up the directory and have a master document that does not compile because the child documents have preambles in them. Now that I understand the problem, I wonder if other people have noticed this and if they have suggestions for a fix? I wondered if perhaps we might have the necessary preamble created as a separate file in each chapter with some if/then magic in each chapter preamble to specify whether or not the master file is in control. Some fix about the figure paths is necessary as well, I don't have a guess about that. pj -- Paul E. Johnson http://pj.freefaculty.org Director, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis http://crmda.ku.edu To write to me directly, please address me at pauljohn at ku.edu<http://ku.edu>. Hello, I have recently developed a LyX template of our university graduate thesis from the LaTeX template (https://github.com/ituast/itutezLyX). I have checked the zip file you gave the link, and I can tell that the structure of the LyX files is very similar to what I did. I have encountered similar problems. We can find (or develop) solutions or procedures for these problems. Including a LyX file within a master LyX file is different than including a LaTeX file within a master LaTeX file. Because in LyX, you can specify which preamble is to be used through the document settings. For LaTeX, there is no such thing, as it is a lower-level process of management/compilation, where the user has to handle everything. As you have mentioned, when you export a LyX file to a LaTeX file, LyX always puts a preamble, which is smtg that you you may not want if the resulting LaTeX file is to be included in a master LaTeX file. The exporter may have an option to ignore the preamble. If you want to implement it, you may need to go the executable of the exporter and search through the command-line help using a help flag (--help, --? or smtg like that). On the other hand, you may still want to have a working preamble to be able to compile the individual LaTeX file to see the result immediately, before inserting it back to the LyX file. The problem with that is thesis class file may have a complicated structure, where you should have all major parts together, otherwise, an individual child file will not compile. So, in this case, it may be a good idea to compile it as a complete thesis, but to include the interested chapter only, which will make the compilation faster. So the problem to me is very specific and isolated. In my case, what I did, I developed a unique procedure and tested it for each of this type of student request. Then asked the students to follow that unique procedure. In your case, we need to define clearly what exactly the students want to do. According to you mail, what I understood is this: The students want to be able to work on the child LyX files, by modifying the LaTeX code and would like to compile the child document only, rather than complete thesis, and they want to to do the compilation through the LaTeX system rather than the LyX system. Of course, at some point they would want to import the LaTeX file back into the LyX system, am I right? Now, if this is what they want to do, I would first develop a LaTeX system, where you can compile complete thesis and where all chapters are seperate to-be-included LaTeX files and are included in the main file. We can ask LyX to export a chapter to a LaTex file and then clean the preamble. The main LaTeX file can be used to compile as if the whole thesis is being compiled, where only the individual chapter is included. After the work is completed in the LaTeX domain, a temporay preamble can be added to it for the purpose of importing it into LyX. The LaTeX file can be imported to LyX using the tex2LyX converter with additional command line options. Importing through default LyX may not always result a useful LyX file (you can add your specific converter with the desired parameters into the LyX AFAIK, because LyX is very customizable). After having a rough LyX file (which may have the wrong preamble), the contents can be copy/pasted to the original LyX child document. I hope this gives you some idea. I am not sure if there can be a more direct approach since the problem is very specific and I am not too familiar with the hidden powers of LyX. Baris -- ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ Please bottom-post. Start your reply here:
