Ralph Boland wrote:
>
> I am looking into submitting an article to the "Journal of Algorithms which prefers
>that
> its submissions use the class file "ajour.cls" which can be downloaded from
> "Academic Press" and which is used by dozens of journals.
>
> Is there a "ajour.layout" file to use with this class?
as far as i know, no!
> If not then I will probably create one. If I do I would like to release it to
> the lyx community. Since I have only created one .layout file before
> (cccg.layout for the Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry 2000)
> I expect that my ajour.layout file would probably not be as clean as it should
> be.
>
> Could anyone volunteer to clean up my file before I release it?
>
> If there are reasons why I should not try to create
> such a file I would like to hear them.
> I don't want to spend time on this unless it is
> a good idea.
try to find out what's the difference to article-class.
if there are only changes in margins, fonts, ...
than choose article-layout as a base for ajour.layout.
if there are are a lot of special environments and commands
than modify article-layout or write it new.
HErbert
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