Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 12:18 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > I have to admit that a problem I have with these local layout files is > that we are going to loose all control over our files. Currently, if > there is a bug in article.layout, we can correct it. If we make local > versions of these files easy to handle, we are going to see everybody > using a file with local versions of article.layout where they added > some theorem layout (or they added nothing, but got it from someone > who grabbed it from another document) and wondering why it does not > work with brand new LyX 1.8. > > This is the reason why LaTeX people designed the LPPL (where you can > make sure that article.cls is really article.cls).
This is a legal solution for a technical problem (the fact that LaTeX is a macro collection, and that the macros cannot easily be patched) which I don't like. If we don't want people to use modified "standard" layouts we could simply prefer the system layouts and layouts in ~/.lyx over local layouts. This makes it still possible to use documents with foreign layouts, but does not make it easy to accidentally use outdated standard layouts. Georg
