Dear LyX developers,
I realise the preoccupation at the moment is to get 2.2 out in the open
but for the next round of development I would like to see the following
enhancement.
I have a large document, a master and 27 chapters (and 4 appendices).
The child documents inherit the master's preamble, so I don't need to
repeat that 27 times. But they don't show *in the gui* the layout
effects of the 5 modules added to master. When the whole document is
compiled, the settings in the master's modules are used for the child
documents, so in that sense they inherit the modules, but not visually,
onscreen, when working at a child in LyX. (E.g., if a module adjusts the
appearance of a section heading to italic, the module has to be
explicitly added to the child for the italic headings to show in LyX,
despite the module being added to the master.)
I would like to see a checkbox added to the Document Settings > Document
Class dialogue below the Select default master document checkbox, and
Master slot, which would become active when these are filled, with a
legend like "Inherit modules from master document" and which would add
them to the child. (So that the Document Settings > Modules dialogue
would show them added in the Selected window.)
At present it's possible to achieve something like this by saving the
settings of the master as document defaults. Then any new document has
the modules added. That would be fine for a 28th chapter but it doesn't
help for the previous 27. (I've recently changed the document class of
this monster document from standard book class to memoir, and this issue
is one of the consequences.)
Andrew
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