I have translated the two notes and put the new version here: https://github.com/yihui/lyx/raw/master/templates/ctex.lyx
For your question in the preamble, yes it looks suspicious but is necessary. XeTeX will run into problems for ctex without \DeclareRobustCommand\nobreakspace{\leavevmode\nobreak\ }; the author of ctex believes this is an issue with xunicode, and has provided this solution. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de> wrote: > Am 28.11.2011 06:32, schrieb Yihui Xie: > >> But Uwe is absolutely right -- we do not really need them. It suffices >> to only keep the one for article. > > Can you please have a look at the template file ctex.lyx? I added some notes > there that need to be translated. I also think that there is some outdated > info, see my note in the file. > > thanks and regards Uwe >