On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 05:02:41PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > Dear LyXers, > > background reading for the "reorganize templates folder" ticket, I found an > interesting statement in the Customization guide (5.2.4 Creating templates): > > > Templates are created just like usual documents: using LyX. The only > difference is that usual documents contain all possible settings, > including the font scheme and the paper size. Usually a user doesn't > want a template to overwrite his preferred settings for such > parameters. For that reason, the designer of a template should remove > the corresponding commands like \font_roman or \papersize from the > template LyX file. This can be done with any simple text-editor, for > example vi or notepad. > > I fully agree with the idea to leave out settings that are not relevant for or > fixed by the template's document class or purpose. > > This may also solve our problem with the default default fonts beeing ugly > bitmaps: Choose LatinModern in the default template and leave out the font > settings in all templates that would use bitmap default fonts. > > However: > > a) The templates that ship with LyX in lib/templates don't do so, they > contain all possible settings (at least all font settings). > > This may be due to "just saving" after some edit or lyx2lyx inserting > settings with format conversions -- with the developer doing the edit or > conversion unaware of the above passage in Customization.lyx > > b) Documents using a template without settings are *not* filled with a > user's preferred settings (as stored in templates/defaults.lyx) but with > the global LyX defaults. > > Am I missing something? > Is this a bug?
I agree with what you wrote and I had not noticed this before. I took a look at just \papersize, and only dinbrief.lyx has non-default. Is the problem worse for other settings? Note that this conversation is similar to the discussion on math settings being "automatic". Scott
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