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
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
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