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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/25/21 1:27 PM, Piantadosi, Steven
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have been using lyx for about 3 years.
Currently I am producing a large book with 25 chapters along
with various smaller projects. The biggest problem I encounter
is that the user interface does not seem to allow separation
of workflow into “projects” or groups of files. It would be
nice if when lyx opened it loaded only the set of files from a
specified project. Otherwise the choice seems to be either
mixing a large number of open files or re-opening files
individually after working on a single file. Is there a simple
way to get lyx to restrict its opening of files based on a
directory or other logical arrangement of files?</p>
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<p>I believe there is a bug report asking for project management of
this kind, similar to what many IDEs and code editors offer. I've
been thinking about working on that myself but it's on a long
list, and there are workarounds.<br>
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<p>First, if the project includes a 'master document' with a variety
of child documents, then opening the master will also open all the
children (and grandchildren, etc). They will be hidden but
accessible via View> Hidden Documents, which means you do have
to unhide whichever one(s) you want to work on. <br>
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<p>But, and second, if the child has a 'default master' set (under
Document> Settings), then opening the child will also open the
master, and with that all of its other descendents. The child will
then be visible with the other documents hidden. (Probably we
could use an "Unhide All" function to open all those other ones.)<br>
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Finally, it's easy to write a small batch file that will open all
the LyX documents in a given directory (if that's how you have
things organized) and make them all visible. How to do that depends
upon what shells are available on your OS. But that is a very simple
and very flexible solution, though one outside LyX itself.<br>
<p>Riki</p>
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