On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Uwe Stöhr <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 27.05.2013 17:23, schrieb Bruno Vernay: > >> I found that the Lyx "User Guide" is quite close to what I would like >> to do. But I didn't find a template matching its document class "book >> (Koma script)". > > > What is your LyX version, and what is your OS? > If you are on Windows, just open an Internet connection and use the menu > Tools->reconfigure. This will automatically install all LaTeX packages and > document classes you need.
I use Lyx 2.0.6 on "MS-Windows XP SP3". I reconfigured it and restarted, didn't see much differences so. > >> My very simple question would be: can I just open the >> doc/UserGuide.lyx, save it as myfile.lyx and start modifying the >> document ?? or is it a bad idea? > > A good idea, I would say because I also write technical documentations using > this as template (OK, I set up the UserGuide as it currently is ;-) ) Kool. I found that even the "docbook-article" is OK, but requires. Anyway, I started with the "UserGuide" and will stick to it for now. > > But for larger things I recommend to start with the thesis template that you > find in LyX's template folder in the subfolder thesis. I won't do larger things. My average document is about 20 pages (A4). I guess 80 pages is about the maximum that can be managed in my projects, above I split them, because nobody would consider reading them. > > regards Uwe > One things that bugs me a lot is how cluttered the templates and examples are. For example the "new from template" shows a lot of cryptic files names that could have been categorized as scientific journals, books, literacy, CV, asian, cyrillic, persian, bidi languages ... Why isn't there some kind of "distribution" with packages relevant to only chemistry or games or serbian documents ? Like the Eclipse packages for example Regards Bruno
