On 2011-11-16, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/16/2011 02:59 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: >> 2011/11/15 Richard Heck<[email protected]> >>> On 11/15/2011 07:37 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: >>>> i opened some LyX templates (File -> New from >>>> Template). To my great disappointment, i don't have any idea what the >>>> names of most of them mean (what is ijmpc, for example?). >>>> Am i missing something big? Is there any simple article template? >>>> Would it be good to suggest changing templates' names to something >>>> more intuitive?
>>> The templates correspond, mostly, to certain document classes. So >>> elsarticle.lyx is a template for documents based upon the elsarticle.cls >>> class, which is used by some Elsevier journals. >> ok... However, does it make sense to include so many templates that >> are missing some external files? Majority of templates that i had >> tried to open said "The selected document class requires external >> files that are not available". > The external files required are LaTeX document classes, packages, etc. > There are bazillions of these, for various different purposes. It's not > expected that you would have them all installed, though you can easily > enough install the ones you need. IMV, it would help a lot if LyX could filter the templates that do not work with the current installation. We do this for document classes, so the vast part of the required logic is already available. Many of the template names as well as the templates themselve do only make sense together with special document classes for special needs. Günter
