1 HOW TO CREATE A NEW TEMPLATE
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4 Templates are almost usual LyX file that are saved by LyX itself.
5 The strength is on "almost".
7 LyX stores some properties in a file, for example:
11 \inputencoding default
19 \paragraph_separation skip
20 \quotes_language german
22 \paperorientation portrait
27 Some of these may be very reasonable for a certain template. In the
28 case of a dinbrief-template this might be the papersize, the language
29 and the quotes-settings, since it is a german-only template. But it
30 wouldn't make much sense to set the fontscheme or the inputencoding,
31 since a user might have customized this already like he/she wanted it
34 So please delete all the lines of a new template with your favorite
35 text editor (for example ed, ex or vi) that you don't want to set
36 explicit for this template. LyX will use the user's default-values
37 (defined in lyxrc) if a property isn't defined in the file itself.