Am 20.04.2017 um 14:27 schrieb Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@ntnu.no>: > > Den 11. april 2017 19:05, skrev Guenter Milde: > >> * Under Linux, the local templates are in ~/.lyx/templates >> I have set this as my templates path in Tools>Settings and >> in this dir a symlink to the standard templates. >> > Nice trick - but user friendliness ought to be the default. When LyX is > installed without tweaks, "new from template" will let you use the templates > that come with LyX (Template button) or the "Documents" button which merely > goes to the home folder. There is no easy way to get at custom templates > stored in the standard location ~/.lyx/templates/ > > I don't know what limitations qt has, is there only two buttons possible on > this dialog?
Please consider platforms where no buttons are available at all: Mac OS X and Windows. Stephan > If so, the "new from template" dialog should have: > [Std templates] that go to the system templates as usual > [Your templates] that go to ~/.lyx/templates/ instead of ~/ > > If this isn't possible due to qt constraints, please make [templates] go to > ~/.lyx/templates and have tools->reconfigure create the symlink to the system > template folder. That way, users will have easy access to both sets of > templates without having to set anything up. > > Lyx should be able to make new documents based on private or std. templates, > without the user searching for either. And it should not be necessary to > tweak the paths either. Tweaking paths is for those who have company > templates in something like /mnt/server17/wordprocessing/templates/ > > Helge Hafting
