Christopher Reeve wrote: > I used to prefer putting everything in one file but then I started > including large png images that greatly increased the compiling times. > Because I like to frequently preview my work by compiling to pdf I was > frustrated how long it was taking so broke everything to separate > chapters.
Maybe you do that anyhow and it is unrelated, but if you use pdflatex (not dvi), then LyX does not need to convert the png files for the latex rung, which might take some time. But then, these conversions should be cached anyhow (see preferences).
> In addition to speeding up previewing, LyX also slowly eats up > my RAM. Keeping. I prefer not collapsing my images (I would if they > collapsed to small image icons), so keeping the chapters separately > means I don't open all images at once. I see. > I believe it is generally known that the current Find/Replace is > pretty basic and that much could be improved (contributors > welcome!). There is some pretty hot stuff on its way though ... > > > Great. I look forward to it. It might still take quite a while though ... :-( /Konrad
