On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, David A. Case wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it > > takes lyx longer and longer to get started. > > > (I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB) > > It is certainly possible (and expected) to see much faster behavior. > On similar hardware, I can open a 400 page book, with about 800 > equations, in about 10 seconds. I can't tell why your system is slow, > but try closing all figure floats, and (possibly) turning off instant > preview. Others may have a better idea of what things cause slow > performance, but it does not seem to be inherent in LyX (or with > windows).
It is quite possible to do large documents in LyX. My thesis was the equivalent of about 160 pages. Using LyX 1.3.3 I could work on it suprisingly well using just a laptop with a 300 MHz Pentium III running Linux. A few tips though: * You can split up your thesis into a multi-part document, this makes each part much easier to work with. * You can set LyX to not show pictures within the LyX window I was using LyX 1.3.3 when I wrote my thesis, and unfortunately the latest version seems to be quite a bit slower. This is a known problem. Maybe you could try LyX 1.3.7 instead? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
