On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:02:41PM +, Guenter Milde wrote:
> Dear LyXers,
>
> background reading for the "reorganize templates folder" ticket, I found an
> interesting statement in the Customization guide (5.2.4 Creating templates):
>
>
> Templates are created just like usual documents: using LyX. The only
> difference is that usual documents contain all possible settings,
> including the font scheme and the paper size. Usually a user doesn't
> want a template to overwrite his preferred settings for such
> parameters. For that reason, the designer of a template should remove
> the corresponding commands like \font_roman or \papersize from the
> template LyX file. This can be done with any simple text-editor, for
> example vi or notepad.
>
> I fully agree with the idea to leave out settings that are not relevant for or
> fixed by the template's document class or purpose.
>
> This may also solve our problem with the default default fonts beeing ugly
> bitmaps: Choose LatinModern in the default template and leave out the font
> settings in all templates that would use bitmap default fonts.
>
> However:
>
> a) The templates that ship with LyX in lib/templates don't do so, they
>contain all possible settings (at least all font settings).
>
>This may be due to "just saving" after some edit or lyx2lyx inserting
>settings with format conversions -- with the developer doing the edit or
>conversion unaware of the above passage in Customization.lyx
>
> b) Documents using a template without settings are *not* filled with a
>user's preferred settings (as stored in templates/defaults.lyx) but with
>the global LyX defaults.
>
> Am I missing something?
> Is this a bug?
I agree with what you wrote and I had not noticed this before. I took a
look at just \papersize, and only dinbrief.lyx has non-default. Is the
problem worse for other settings?
Note that this conversation is similar to the discussion on math
settings being "automatic".
Scott
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