Am 13.05.2011 um 02:52 schrieb Jens Nöckel: > > On May 12, 2011, at 4:54 PM, BH wrote: > >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Trevor Jenkins <bslwann...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:30 AM, BH <bewih...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Trevor Jenkins <bslwann...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> I seem to have screwed my LyX installation on a Mac OS X 10.6.7 server >>>>> machine. The executable runs fine. I can create simple documents (as in >>>>> testing someone else's issue with 10.6.7) but when I try "New from >>>>> Template" >>>>> the various folders are empty. Those in the LyX package are there >>>>> (Finder >>>>> can open the package and show me the various files) but LyX itself >>>>> cannot >>>>> find anything. > > No need to worry. In case it's still unclear: Just go to Preferences > Paths > and change the field for "Document templates" to > /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates/ > > Alternatively, in case you are planning modify those templates by hand, leave > the above field unchanged, but instead copy all the files from the above > directory in the Application package into the folder > $HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0/templates/ > > Then you can edit those templates, and add new ones, without risk of having > them overwritten by a LyX update.
Thank you for the explanation. LyX on Mac differs from Linux here - there is no short cut button in left area of the file open dialog to open the system templates like on Linux. This is that way because we loose other features when using a private file open implementation - all finder like functionality is missing then. It's on my ToDo list to solve that - but I couldn't find a proper way to attack this. Couldn't find any interface to modify the left finder area of the file open dialog until now. I'd like to add the path /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates at runtime... since it may very well be another location where LyX is living... Stephan
