On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Guenter Milde <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > I think that would be a good idea and make it less irritating for users. > > Many of the template names as well as the templates themselve do only make > sense together with special document classes for special needs. > While we are at templates: It would be really nice, if in the list of available templates when choosing new - from template, both template diretories (user and system) would be displayed, as it irritated me for quite some time that the user templates do not show up. AS I guess this could be difficult ( one file selection dialog from two sources), an button in the dialog to switch to the user templates (and back to system tamplates) would make things clearer. Cheers, Rainer > Günter > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug
