On 2011-05-10, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> For truly consistent behaviour, we would have to disable stand-alone >> compilation of documents setting a master (except for "included" (vs. >> "input") documents).
> Why this? I have many documents with a master set that get compiled stand- > alone from time to time and should _not_ inherit anything from the master > then. Because the OP complained that it is incosistent to show math-macro expansions in the child doc but not make them available in stand-alone compilation. The same argument would hold for references to sections, equations, tables and figures in other parts of the document. Actually, I regularly compile stand-alone child docs (to save time on checking the appearance in the output). I have set up a "stand-alone" branch for math-macros and bibliography and I can live with the question marks in the references. The above was just stating the "pure" solution to the OPs report. However, I vote to keep things as-is, because: "practicality beats purity". Just make it very clear in the documentation that parent-document features are non-available in the child if compiled stand-alone (without include feature) even if rendered in the LyX window - this is a feature. (After switching to LyX 2 I will try with the include feature.) Günter
