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When a user creates a new document from a template, the template is copied but relative paths are not changed, so the resulting .lyx file is broken. By moving documents with relative paths to examples, the files will compile out of the box. A long-term solution that allows for relative paths in templates is still desired and will be discussed in #8643 or in a new ticket.
HOW TO CREATE A NEW TEMPLATE
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Templates are almost usual LyX file that are saved by LyX itself.
The strength is on "almost".
LyX stores some properties in a file, for example:
\textclass dinbrief
\language german
\inputencoding default
\fontscheme default
\epsfig dvips
\papersize a4paper
\paperfontsize 12
\baselinestretch 1.00
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\paperorientation portrait
\papercolumns 9
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle plain
Some of these may be very reasonable for a certain template. In the
case of a dinbrief-template this might be the papersize, the language
and the quotes-settings, since it is a german-only template. But it
wouldn't make much sense to set the fontscheme or the inputencoding,
since a user might have customized this already like he/she wanted it
to be.
So please delete all the lines of a new template with your favorite
text editor (for example ed, ex or vi) that you don't want to set
explicit for this template. LyX will use the user's default-values
(defined in lyxrc) if a property isn't defined in the file itself.