On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've tried to add a new class called exam, and have been unsuccessful. The
> instructions call for simply placing the exam.cls file in a place where latex
> coulf find it
Yes, this means a directory under .../texmf/tex/latex/<some-directory>
> so I created a directory in the packages area, placed the file
> there, ran texhash and reran lyx configure, but was unsuccessful.
Do you have a corresponding LyX layout? Where is it? It should stay in a
directory named ".lyx/layouts" in your home directory or
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts.
> add a documentclass statement to the preamble, but that died too.
This way your document will have two \documentclass statements.
> I then moved the file into the lyx subdirectory of that area, noting that
> other class files were in there as well, reran the configure scripts, and
> found things still not working. I'm afraid I'm at a bit of a loss.
You can put the .cls file in another directory and instruct teTeX to look
in that place. In my .profile I have
TEXINPUTS=".:$HOME/lib/teTeX:"
export TEXINPUTS
> The only other thing I can think of is to try to create a new file
> (template?) which has its own \documentclass statement. Is this possible?
You *should* do it. Read the already existing layouts and you will see
that it is not that difficult.
> The class is supposed to be more or less an extension of the article
> class, FWIW. I am curious whether it can set itself up as something
> which will list all the paragraph options as do the other classes, or
> if I will need to define some commands to shorten the typing of the
> latex code need to access the features of the package. ???
You can add them to your new LyX layout or in last case insert them in TeX
mode.
Casantos
