On 21.01.2018 00:13, Richard Heck wrote:
On 01/20/2018 11:30 AM, racoon wrote:
By default LyX loads standard layouts and insets. Is there a way to
extend them without overwriting the default .inc file and without
using a module?
Let's say I want to extend the standard Note style.
I don't want to use a module since I want to make a non-optional
change to the Note inset. For example, I want to use another font size
for all LyX notes.
If I understood correctly, I can just put a copy of the stdinset.inc
file from the library to the user directory. But this will have the
unwelcome effect to overwrite whatever is in the stdinset.inc in the
library directory. So, to avoid unwanted consequences, I will have to
update my user stdinset.inc every time the library stdinset.inc
changes, for example, in a new version of LyX.
I have run into this problem, too. Some form of it will arise any time
you want to emend or amend a layout file.
I wonder if a longer-term solution is required, then. Might there be
some way we could have 'extensions' of this kind? Maybe they could be
named things like stdinsets.inc.ext and they would always be loaded
after the corresponding other file was.
That sounds like a good solution to me. (And it could, in principle, be
extended to other files: For every file where this seems reasonable,
whether .inc, .module, etc., it is checked whether there is a file with
the same name with the additional extension .ext and then loaded.)
Daniel
