Dave Hewitt wrote:
Many thanks to Paul Rubin for his recent help on document classes.
But, as he probably suspected, my dilemna continues (me and the
wolverine are both a bit worse for wear, but we'll live) and now I
think it rises to a new level...
There's many wonderful document classes out there, and new users are
probably interested in trying them out in LyX, but the layout file is
(as described) difficult to deal with. I spent an hour or so messing
with NRC's classes and a couple others (using Paul's suggestions and
the Customization Ch. 5), all to no avail. LyX fails to convert files
with just a single line of text into any of the three I tried (from
article).
Post the layout file or files. What kinds of error messages are you getting?
So, my question is: is there a repository somewhere of layout files
that people have created to work with the various document classes?
Other than /usr/share/lyx/layouts/? Seriously, I think there are some on
the wiki somewhere, but this remains one of the biggest issues with LyX.
Some kind of layout editor would be really nice to have, and I think
some of Helge's students started one in Java. And some of us have
thought about it from time to time. It really wouldn't be that hard, if
you know some C++. I'd do it, but I have other targets at the moment
(not to mention a dayjob).
Richard
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