"R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Hi,
>
| In the preferences dialog, Outputs->Misc->Papersize has a choice "default", which
| I only can see as a nonsense option.
>
| 1) This so called "default" merely refers to the hard coded choice by LyX:
| src/lyxrc.C line 191
| default_papersize = BufferParams::PAPER_USLETTER;
>
| This seems to me an arbitrary choice and does not deserve the alias "default".
>
| 2) Choose "default" here and save the settings. Reopening the Preferences dialog will
| indeed show "default". However, closing/restarting LyX, will show you now "US
|Letter"
| in the preferences page size.
>
| So, after all, it's a fake "default".
>
| 3) The "default" is totally non-informative. It's much better to tell the user
| what the real papersize choice is here. That "default" is "US letter" is too
|obscure.
>
| I suggest to get rid of the choice option "default" altogether.
| Set the pagesize by default to something (US letter, A4, or whatever) but don't call
|that
| *the* default.
Wrong fix.
The fix is to store a default in the layout file and not output the
paper size to latex if the documents papersize is the same as in the
layout file.
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Lgb
