Does a new setting made under Options override the settings of the default template when creating subsequent documents?

[ecbritz]

I notice that when I change a setting under Options, it (the new Options setting) remains active after I exit Textmaker, then restart Textmaker, and then create a new document applying the default template. The changed Options setting seems to rule over all new documents, regardless of how the default template was set up.

For instance, when I set up my default template, I left the box at Options > Edit > Capitalize first letter of sentences unchecked. The first letter of sentences NOT to be capitalized automatically. However, if I check the box at Options > Edit > Capitalize first letter -- confirming that the first letter must be capitalized -- this setting remains active in subsequent Textmaker sessions. It is as if I had saved capitalization as an adjustment to my default template.

Have I misunderstood the reach of my default template? Are the settings (or some settings) in my default template permanently overruled if I change a setting under Options? Or are there perhaps two sets of "default settings" at work when you start a new document, namely (a) the settings (such as page size) saved in your default template and (b) the Options settings as they were when you last made changes to them?

[martin-k]

Everything in the Options dialog is global, not related to templates.

[ecbritz]

Thanks! I have been laboring under the misunderstanding that some settings under Options could be incorporated into the default template, e.g. a certain language could be selected as the initial or primary language when the default template is applied. But now the scales have fallen from my eyes and I can see.