Re: lyx file format changes

[Dekel Tsur]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 05:23:31PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> | > | I guess that the question is whether we store information about the
> | > | appearance of the document in the document itself, or in an external file
> | > | ("layout file") ?
> | > | The former is better if you want to write many documents using the
> | > | same style.
> | > 
> | > and when you send the lyx file to someone without that (modified) layoutfile?
> | 
> | So you send both files.
> 
> And then what is the point in "standarized" layout files?

The article.layout etc. files are for the environments/commands defined by the
standard .cls files, and they should not be changed by the user.
The "user layout" files are for defining new environments/commands or changing
already defined environments/commands.