On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:35:25PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering, if LyX has support for custom style files, which are > distributed with a large document. As an example, if I write my thesis or a > manual, somebody might have defined a common style which gives the same look > for all documents of a department, call it mysty.sty for now. > > When just using LaTeX, I would include my.sty in the source directory of a > document to be distributed and the receiver would run LaTeX, LaTeX would find > mysty.sty in the current working directory and everything would work fine. > > With LyX, I have to define an additional mysty.layout file, which is easy > enough. How would I distribute now the mysty.sty and mysty.layout to make it > as convenient as possible for the recipient to view the document with LyX? > > I tried to include the mysty.sty and the mysty.layout in the document > directory, started up LyX for the document directory, but even a reconfigure > did not find mysty. > > Next I moved mysty into ~/.lyx/layouts and run reconfigure. LyX found > mysty.layout but it did not find the sty file, though it was in the working > directory. > > I got it working, only when I installed the .sty file in the LaTeX system > installation as well.
What I do in this situation is simply putting the \usepackage{mysty}
into the preamble. It will find it in the current working dir. Don't
bother to reconfigure LyX. -- Martin
> To me that looks broken, though I might not have found the trick yet or not
> have configured something correctly...
>
> If it is broken like this, is there an easy way to fix that issue? I compile
> LyX usually myself...
>
> I put out a very small example, which helps highlighting the issue:
>
> http://www.alzental-castle.de/~rd/mysty.tgz
>
> The goal is to display document.lyx within lyx without
> -> installing mysty.sty systemwide
> -> installing mysty.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts (though I could live with this
> one for now)
>
> Many thanks,
> Rainer
>
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