Sorry, I meant the compilation of LyX documents is much faster. This matters
if you have many tikz-figures in your document.
> On 22 Feb 2025, at 10:39, mkriele--- via lyx-users <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
> wrote:
>
> Andrew has answered your question. Another possibility is to have a latex
> file for each tikz-picture which produces pdf file for the corresponding
> figure. These pdf files can be inserted as figures in LyX. This approach has
> two advantages: Firstly, you can use a good editor with syntax highlighting
> to edit your pictures. Secondly, the compilation of the latex document is
> much faster. You will automatically see the change in LyX, whenever any of
> these pdf files is updated. In those latex files I am using
>
> \usepackage[active,tightpage,psfixbb]{preview}
> \PreviewEnvironment{pgfpicture}
> \setlength\PreviewBorder{0pt}
>
> in order to just produce the figures without any surrounding white space. I
> don’t remember whether one actually needs the second and third line, but you
> certainly need the package tightpage.
>
> Regards
> Marcus
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