On 10/31/2017 03:44 PM, racoon wrote: > On 25.10.2017 22:07, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 10/24/2017 09:37 AM, racoon wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I know of the "Save as Document Defaults" in the document settings. >>> What it seems to do is create a default document with preferences that >>> is loaded when one creates a new document. >>> >>> However, if I have created a number of documents using those defaults >>> and discover that I would like to have something differently, is it >>> possible not only to save the new settings to the defaults for new >>> documents but also apply those defaults withing other already existing >>> documents? >>> >>> I guess I am missing an "Apply Document Defaults" button in settings. >>> But maybe there is a different way in LyX to do this. >> >> There's no way in LyX to do this, but the fact that LyX files are just >> text files makes it easy to do outside LyX. One option is to write a >> really basic filter and then run it on your files. For example, if you >> wanted to use refstyle, whereas you hadn't previously, you could just >> do: >> perl -ibak -pe 's/\\use_refstyle 0/\\use_refstyle 1/' *.lyx >> Of course, if it's just that one thing to change, that's maybe not so >> helpful. But if there were several changes.... >> >> Many people use similar techniques to make all kinds of changes to LyX >> files. Just as an example, I'm attaching a Perl script I used a little >> while ago to change all citations to a particular book to citealias-type >> citations. I prefer to write these things in Perl, since it was more or >> less designed for this sort of thing. But you could also do it in >> Python, of course, or sed or awk, if you're really masochistic. > > Thanks Richard. I will have to look into it when my changes to the > default get too many to keep track of them and do them manually for > all the older documents. But wouldn't this be a nice feature to have > in LyX right next to the Save Defaults button? Maybe your script could > be used for that?
It's a reasonable request. Note, however, that it would essentially involve replacing all the Document settings, at least if we really want to use the defaults. Actually, come to think of it, here's another way to do it: Create a new document; cut and paste the content of the old one. Richard
