On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Jens Nöckel <noec...@uoregon.edu> wrote:
> > 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/ > I needed to make that point to the layouts directory to get it to work. 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. > I may alter things in the future but for the moment I'm content to use the layouts and templates provided in the system directory. Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed!
