>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pedro> So, what aren't the "default" statements in the layout files
Pedro> for? Aren't those supposed to tell LyX what the defaults are
Pedro> for each texclass so that there is no need to "discover" them?
The use of these default statements is to tell LyX: "if columns is set
to 2, do not write anything to the .tex file, since this is already
the default of the latex class".
Pedro> I prefer to do it like this because it provides feedback to the
Pedro> user about what the defaults of the texclass are. It wouldn't
Pedro> be necessary if all the default values defined in the layout
Pedro> file were visible under the menu Layout --> Document, but they
Pedro> are not, only a few of them.
I agree that, for things like font size, the default should be somehow
visible in the document layout popup. It is just not done yet...
JMarc
