It turns out the external_templates file was hidden away in LyX.app itself. In
it, it suggests the following:
# Feel free to create your own External Templates, storing them in
# .lyx/external_templates
So I created ~/.lyx/external_templates and added this content:
Template LHS
GuiName "LHS: $$AbsOrRelPathParent$$Basename"
HelpText
Including Literate Haskell
HelpTextEnd
InputFormat lhs
FileFilter "*.lhs"
AutomaticProduction true
Format LHS
Product "\\input{$$AbsOrRelPathMaster$$Basename.tex_t}"
UpdateFormat lhs
UpdateResult "$$AbsPath$$Basename.tex"
ReferencedFile lhs "$$AbsPath$$Basename.tex"
FormatEnd
TemplateEnd
Next, I reconfigured LyX and restarted it.
Unfortunately, it still doesn't show my template.
Have I misplaced the external_templates file?
On 25 Oct, 2010, at 13:43 , Richard Heck wrote:
> On 10/25/2010 04:32 AM, Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
>> Hmm... I just figured out I might be able to do this using Templates.
>> However, I can't seem to be able to make my custom template appear in the
>> list of Templates in the Insert External Material dialog. Where do I place
>> my newly created template?
>> I'm using LyX 2.0 alpha 6 on Mac OS X 10.6.4.
>>
>>
> I'm not sure about this, but I think what you should do is copy the file
> lib/external_templates from LyX's system directory to your local user
> directory, then add your template to the local version. This is not the most
> flexible system, to be sure.
>
> Richard
>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Jurriën
>>
>> On 25 Oct, 2010, at 09:57 , Jurriën Stutterheim wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm trying to streamline the inclusion of Haskell code in my documents.
>>> Currently, I use the lhs2TeX tool to convert my .lhs (Literate Haskell)
>>> file to .tex, which I can then include in LyX using the regular include
>>> mechanism.
>>> Ideally, however, I would just include my .lhs file in LyX and have a
>>> converter execute the lhs2TeX step for me. It might be useful to note that
>>> lhs2TeX can both write to a file and output the produced LaTeX code to
>>> stdout.
>>> Is this possible?
>>>
>>> I added a File Format in the LyX File Formats settings dialog with
>>> extension lhs and Default Output Format LaTeX (pdflatex). I marked it as
>>> Document format.
>>> Next, I added a converter from Literate Haskell to LaTeX (pdflatex). The
>>> converter command is lhs2TeX $$i -o $$o . This command makes lhs2TeX
>>> convert the input $$i to LaTeX and write the results to file $$o .
>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't really do anything useful yet. How can I make
>>> this converter work?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> - Jurriën
>>>
>>
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