Thank you very much.
The last option you mentioned is the one I would like to adopt. But, where is
this preferences file located?
Moreover, in the LyX->Preferences->Paths window, I don't see such a file.
Could you give me more instructions on how to find it?
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On Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 at 5:27 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/31/22 16:42, tush via lyx-users wrote:
>
>> Me and my colleagues are working on a multi-user project.
>> Is there any way to guarantee that all of us have the same LyX settings?
>> We can share screenshots of the settings window, but I prefer something more
>> technical.
>>
>> I mean, the document settings are part of the file.
>> But LyX settings definitely should not be the same for all users.
>> Particularly, settings that are related to languages, font encoding and
>> shortcuts, for example, could change if an expert user has made changes
>> after the first installation.
>>
>> I was wondering if I can write down a file to be sent via email to my
>> colleagues so can double-click and open it, and after running it they would
>> have the same settings for LyX as me, the project manager.
>>
>> Is there such a thing?
>
> Any document-specific settings are contained in the document itself. So you
> do not have to worry about those. They will travel with the document. You can
> see them yourself. Just open the LyX file with a text editor. It will look
> something like this:
>
> #LyX 2.4 created this file. For more info see https://www.lyx.org/
> \lyxformat 608
> \begin_document
> \begin_header
> \save_transient_properties true
> \origin unavailable
> \textclass paper
>
> The document settings are in the header, which ends with \end_header.
>
> The system-wide settings are all contained in text files that you can find in
> your user directory, most importantly the 'preferences' file. So to
> synchronize those, you just need to send that file to other users. But I'm
> not sure that those are what you have in mind.
>
> Note, by the way, that it is easy to use LyX with different configurations.
> The '-userdir' flag lets you specify a user directory, so your users could
> have one for use with this project and a different one that they use for
> other things....if they want.
>
> Riki
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