Martin Vermeer wrote:
Forgive me if this has already been answered, but what is
this 'modules' idea? Adding optional small features on top
of what the document class provides?
Yes. See
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657
and
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3309
for some thoughts. (I've got 3309 working locally, so I can do what it
says there.)
One application---this is often asked on the user list---would be to
allow you to add theorem support to, say, article.layout without having
to create a new layout. You would just have a "module" theorems.mod
which you could then choose via Document>Settings, and it would be just
as if you'd included it in your layout file. In the same vein, if you
developed a set of character styles, you could keep then in a module
charstyles.mod, and then include that in any class, without having to
modify layout files. It would be fairly easy to add an even more `local'
setting, too, so you could add layout info directly, as with the
preamble. This would make layout editing and creation a whole lot
simpler. You could play with it there, and then, when it worked, copy it
out to a file.
At the moment, this is still pretty experimental, but it works, more or
less.
Richard
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