On Sunday 28 January 2007 10:44, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 27 Jan, 2007, at 5:21 AM, killermike wrote: > >> I'd have to disagree.Unfortunately LyX is still behind the curve in > >> the area of big project management (books, manuals, etc). But it is > >> close to perfect, I think, for any document from 0 pages to > >> chapter-length as long as complex layouts are not required (i.e. > >> multicolumnns with pictures and tables, etc.). > > > > I like to use Lyx for nearly everything as it's good 'practice' for > > when I need to use it for the more important stuff. For example, I > > once wrote a shorter doc in Lyx while trying out an unfamiliar > > document class. > > > > I'm at the note taking stage of a book project myself. Care to > > elaborate about the features which you think that Lyx is missing for > > book-scale projects? > > I'll just mention a couple: > > 1. Framemaker has the concept of a "book": a multifile work to which > you can add chapters (and indexes, etc). Once you have a book set up, > you can find and replace across chapters, change the formatting across > the whole book, etc. This makes it very easy, for instance, to switch > from draft-style to final style when printing out a publication. > LyX/LaTex still does not (and never will, I think) understand a similar > concept. The best approximation I could find is to use a master file > with several include commands and then switch to different > configuration files. It works, but is not as easy and as simple. In my > case, moreover, it's rather error-prone. I am not a very organized > person and tend to forget which config file produces which outputs, > etc. In Framemaker, all it takes is a few clicks. As for multi-file > searches, there is nothing like it in LyX. You have to open the LyX > files in an editor that allows such multi-file operation (i.e. BBedit, > on the Mac), and then go back to LyX for the real editing.
I'm not sure how necessary this is. My book "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" is a 309 page, >100,000 word LyX authored book. It's contained in a single file, and with a modern computer I'm not bothered by any sort of latency. So for me, how it acts in file-per-chapter mode isn't an issue. Of course, if it were 1200 pages and different chapters were authored by different people (like Samba Unleashed), you probably couldn't do it as a single file. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
