My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures,
and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child
documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up
logically into a few input child documents.
DVI generation takes around 50 seconds, but most days I only run that a
few times, so it's not a problem.
Splitting also makes version control a little easier, too.
One more tip: create subdirectories for your embedded figures. I didn't
and I wish I had (but I'm not spending the time to re-organise now that
it's finished)
A satisfied LyX-user,
Cameron.
Piero Faustini wrote:
> Hello fellow LyX users,
> I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different
> files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the
> file
> into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time
> during the writing.
