2014-11-13 11:20 GMT+01:00 Klaus-Dieter Bauer <bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.com> : > > 2014-11-07 19:50 GMT+01:00 Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org>: > >> On 11/07/2014 10:25 AM, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Is there a method to share document settings (document class, font size, >>> ...) across all subdocuments of a project? >>> >>> My intention is to be able to compile each file separately (for faster >>> debugging), with changes to document settings being automatically shared >>> across all files and explicitly WITHOUT manually changing settings like >>> \includeonly or commenting-out include statements. >>> >> >> Note that Document> Settings> Child Documents provides a different way to >> do this. But I understand the desire to compile the documents separately. >> And that can sort of be done. >> >> If you can get the settings right at the start, then you can put them >> into a sort of template file and use that to start all your documents. But >> if you need to change something, you'll have to change it manually in each >> of the sub-documents. The exception is anything you put in the LaTeX >> preamable. That can be synchronized by putting it all into some common file >> and then incuding that. >> >> Richard >> > Since I found manually changing the documents tiresome, I wrote a script > that extracts, overwrites and copies the header section between lyx files > and uploaded it to > > https://gist.github.com/kbauer/2282492968f061b94f82 >
Picking up on my old question again, with a more limited scope: Is there some feature that allows putting the "local layout" in an external file, that is local to the current project (e.g. in the same directory as the lyx file)? I am recently heavily using the "local layout" feature in my documents. This does however come with some disadvantages, notably a very limited internal editor and the need to manually (or with an external script) synchronize the setting across multiple files of a project. Installing them as system-wide modules isn't a good solution either, when I want to ensure that files that were created with an old version of my local-layout will still compile in the future, let alone on other people's LyX-installation – or my own in three years. regards, Klaus
