On 2011-04-17, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/17/2011 03:40 AM, gordon cooper wrote: >> Greetings to all.
>> I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex. >> I have to write monthly reports/meeting minutes. Have looked at the >> templates for report/articles/proceedings and have found that none >> of them is what I need. So I tried making a .lyx file with the >> layout that >> suited and tried to save it as a new template. Lyx refused to save it >> but >> did not tell me why. > Where were you trying to save it? Depending upon your OS, and if you > were trying to save it to where the system templates are, you may not > have proper permissions to do that. Just try saving it as a normal file > to a normal location. Templates actually are just normal files. However, if you want to use it via "New from template" it's a good idea to keep in $LYXDIR/templates (where the value of $LYXDIR means the "LyX user dir", depends on the OS and can be seen via Help>About LyX). OTOH, you can use any directory and set the path under Tools>Settings>Paths. I have my templates under ~/.lyx/templates/ and in this directory placed a symlink to /usr/share/lyx/templates/ (where the official LyX templates reside). Günter
