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.
I'd like to followup on this, even though the original thread is dated. I'm wondering whether templates are even a possible solution for me. I compose in Scrivener, then compile to LatTeX and import into LyX. Within the constraints of the APA and Chicago styles I know what I want documents to look like. It's pretty barebones: title bold in a font only a little larger than text, sometimes centered, sometimes at the left margin; headings bold at the left margin in a font the same size as text; ability to switch between footnotes and footnotes at the end/endnotes. Once I get a document formatted to my satisfaction I'd rather not have to go through the process all over again with each new version or new paper. Other than by doing a lot of cutting and pasting, I don't see how a template could be used with documents imported from other applications and not originally composed in LyX. Getting in a little over my head here, but my naive user's sense is a class would be required. I imagine it's not so easy to create a new class, even building on an existing class. I wonder if there is a class out there that would already provide what I'm looking for. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz
