Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 19:39:40 schrieben Sie: > >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.
Have a look at the pdfpages implementation in external_templates for a start. > > 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. I thought about making it a subset of InsetInfo. But maybe it is worth to set up an own InsetDate and even a dialog where the above options could be selected/set. Jürgen
