On 28/07/2018 01:32, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 07/27/2018 10:55 AM, Daniel wrote:
When selecting "New from Template..." LyX always starts at the
template directory in the library directory. I guess when creating
custom templates they should not be put into the library directory.
But then one would have to always manually navigate to the template
directory. So, LyX should remember the directory where the last
template was opened from to make it easier to use one's own templates.
Alternatively, LyX should place all templates in the user directory
and always start from there, so that the user can add a template there.
Daniel
Following advice from someone on the list (I think), I went to Tools >
Preferences... > Paths and changed the template path to the template
folder in the user directory. Now "New from Template" always starts from
there. I added a symlink in the local templates directory to the LyX
templates directory, so if I want a template that came with LyX I can
just use that link to quickly get to the "official" directory.
Paul
Thanks Paul. That helps.
I must confess that I never used templates before. And found it to be
working a bit different from the other features, like modules. Normally
I would expect LyX to provide a list of templates that are a union of
those in the library directory and the user directory while the same
file in the user directory as in the library directory replaces it in
the list. Wouldn't this be more natural?
I am mainly using templates to use the same document settings for new
files. For my purposes it would actually be better if the document
settings could also be imported from other files, for example a
template. Here is an example for why this could be useful. While writing
documents of the same type I am using my previous document settings for
new files. But I keep also changing them, for example, when new settings
are added to LyX. It would be great if there was an easy way to update
the document settings by importing them from another LyX file.
Daniel
