Siterer Shawn Willden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To use LyX to produce the sort of engineering/requirements > documentation used by my group, I need to see if I can find/produce a > document class that replicates the structure of our Word documents.
I guess this could be done in several ways. The best and easiest in the long run would be to hire someone to craft a new LaTeX class, lyx layout and template. However, this would not be gratis and might be a bigger investment than you are willing to do at the moment. Therefore starting with something that are already supported in LyX and live with some changes and warts until you are committed to LyX may be the easiest and best starting point. Here are some tips from the top of my head... > The body of the documents are pretty standard section, subsection, > etc. structures with numbered headings. The mwrep document class that > comes with my copy of LyX (I'm using the current Debian unstable > package) is nearly perfect. It's a little annoying that the top-level > sections are called "Chapters" and that they're unnumbered in LyX, > but the output is exactly right. AFAIK mwrep is a style made for the polish market and the documentation is in polish which makes it a bit difficult to use for people that do not read polish... Have you tried koma-skript article ? It has a lot more options out of the box, but might not have the look you want ? Read more on koma-script here: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf To get numbered sections and subsection adjust the slider in Documents->setting->numbering & TOC > The main part of that document class that requires customization is > the title page and we need footers. <snip> > Each page also needs a footer, containing the file name, page number > (e.g. "Page n of m"), version number and last revision date. > > Would it be difficult to make something like this? Is there something > out there that's close that I could use as a starting point? I cant see anything impossible in what you have described above. Try to find a LaTeX class that have as much of the look you want as possible, but even more important, probably, that it can do what you want and I would again say that koma-script is good :). Another tip is that the label do not matter that much, institute can become copyright statement or document owner if it looks right on paper. And in LyX you can change the name from institute to copyright statement by changing the layout file. If you need to include some changes to the look of a class this is usually possible by adding some LaTeX to the preamble, this can then either be hidden in the layoutfile or in the template file... You can also remove styles from the layoutfile that are not used to make it even more userfriendly. Well, as I said, some pointers to get you started. Do not hesitate to ask questions if you have some questions. Ingar PS do not forget to read the help->Customization chapter 5. --
