In <Pine.GSO.4.21.9912201647400.28381-100000@spica>, on 12/20/99 
   at 05:02 PM, Carlos A M dos Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

[...]
>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.

Hmm.  Haven't looked for such.  



>> add a documentclass statement to the preamble, but that died too.

>This way your document will have two \documentclass statements.

Yup.  Found that out.  Last time I try it.  :)  That is where the idea of a
separate template came from...



>> 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

That is done by texhash in my case, I think, since I am keeping the file in
the normal part of the tex directory tree.



>> 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.

Thanks very much, Carlos!  I'll try these things immediately (er, well, after
the kids get busy elsewhere... ;)

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