Martin Vermeer wrote:
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:18:50PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
Martin Vermeer wrote:
Forgive me if this has already been answered, but what is
this 'modules' idea? Adding optional small features on top
of what the document class provides?
Yes. See
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2657
and
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3309
for some thoughts. (I've got 3309 working locally, so I can do what it says
there.)
One application---this is often asked on the user list---would be to allow
you to add theorem support to, say, article.layout without having to create
a new layout. You would just have a "module" theorems.mod which you could
then choose via Document>Settings, and it would be just as if you'd included
it in your layout file. In the same vein, if you developed a set of
character styles, you could keep then in a module charstyles.mod, and then
include that in any class, without having to modify layout files. It would
be fairly easy to add an even more `local' setting, too, so you could add
layout info directly, as with the preamble. This would make layout editing
and creation a whole lot simpler. You could play with it there, and then,
when it worked, copy it out to a file.
At the moment, this is still pretty experimental, but it works, more or
less.
Richard
This looks extremely useful. There are lots of little LaTeX packages floating
around that could be supported in this way.
One of those things that was born of my own frustration....
Richard
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