On Jul 17, 2011, at 12:52 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > A template is a means, not an end. As soon as you finish tailoring the > sketch of a document (using the class that you've chosen) to your > likes, then you're good to go: start writing and filling it up with > actual content. When you finish writing the document and you're ready > to submit it, if you are happy with the looks of the final output and > anticipate to create such documents later, _then_ you may consider > carving out of it a template, put it into the LyX templates folder (or > any other folder, for the matter), and re-use whenever the needs > arise.
Thanks, Liviu. I was assuming that a template might be developed incrementally starting from a document formatted with one of the classes. E.g., I have been formatting and printing drafts of sections of a paper that I'm working on. So far, each time I go to print a draft, I have to reformat it from scratch. I was hoping that I would be able to save the format each time so it would be available for the next printing, and that with periodic tweaks I could gradually work my way toward a format that required minimal tweaking. As I read you, you're saying it only makes sense to create a template from a complete/final draft document. I guess part of what's going on is that it's easier me to think of formatting in relation to content, and I assumed that with LyX I could easily check the effect of particular formatting instructions. No? Something else that may be relevant is that I don't write in LyX. I write elsewhere and import into LyX for formatting and printing. Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
