>Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 17:15:02 schrieben Sie:
>> Sorry, I don't feel that this should be an InsetExternal as it 
>> influences the whole document.
>
>Why? I can use wallpaper1.jpg on pages 1--3 and wallpaper2.jpg
>on the other pages. At least this is how I read the wallpaper manual.

Yes, good point, but I've not enough knowledge about InsetExternal's to 
envisualize it.

> I also don't get why Date is an InsetExternal. If I want to insert the 
> Date of today, I woulnd not imagine to go to
> Insert->File->External, as 1. this doesn't involve a file at all, 2. 
> Insert->File->I'd
> expect it to be close to Insert->Date.

>Granted. IIRC date was a "proof of concept" for the External
>inset. It could be removed, if we converted existing occurrences
>to whatever its successor is.

InsetDate ?
-- date document was last edited, 
-- today's date,
-- date when the inset was inserted,
-- custom date, 
-- possibility to specify different formats.

We could maybe also use this in the frontmatter. 

Vincent

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