Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > It is necessary to select language and document class. Providing "default" > for these is dangerous, because it won't work without explicit preamble > commands. There is no "default" document class. I'll note that I sometimes find it conve

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Helge Hafting writes: > secnumdepth and tocnumdepth lack a "default" setting. Perhaps it'd be > useful with a checkbox "Default Depths" similiar to the "Default > Margins" we already have. It'd implicate that latex, the preamble > commands, or some package makes the decision. There is a default s

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-12 Thread Helge Hafting
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as close as possible the sample. My recommendation: Copy the sample preamble into the Document->Settings->Latex preamble. Leave all o

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
Pavel Sanda schreef: Richard Heck wrote: I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What would be easy, however, would be a kind of "expert" mode, where LyX does not output ANY preamble other than the one specified by the user. This could be toggled on and off, a

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What > would be easy, however, would be a kind of "expert" mode, where LyX does > not output ANY preamble other than the one specified by the user. This > could be toggled on and off, and people could cu

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: John McCabe-Dansted wrote: However I was wondering if this sounds like a good feature for LyX itself? http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5031 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5366 I have a very hard time seeing how this might be implemented reliably. What would be eas

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Pavel Sanda
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > However I was wondering if this sounds like a good feature for LyX itself? http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5031 http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/5366

Re: Feature Suggestion: Specifying Exact LaTeX Preamble in LyX

2009-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Saturday 06 June 2009 02:02:25 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a > paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as > close as possible the sample. Usually I can trick LyX into generating > something pretty clo