> -----Original Message-----
> From: William R. Buckley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: 'rgheck'
> Subject: RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rgheck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:36 AM
> > To: William R. Buckley
> > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
> >
> > > So, how do I install and make available the LNCS files,
> and how do I
> > > use them to prepare, or work with, a .layout file?
> > >
> > This one I can say a bit about. It's likely that the LNCS
> class file
> > is based upon some other LaTeX class, e.g., article. You
> can find this
> > out by looking at the .cls file.
> > It may say early in a comment (comments begin with "%").
> You can also
> > look for a \LoadClass{...} line. The loaded class is the
> base class.
> > So let's say it's article.
> > Then you can try just copying the
> > article.layout file to lncs.layout (say) and changing the
> first real
> > line, which reads:
> > # \DeclareLaTeXClas{article}
> > to:
> > # \DeclareLaTeXClas{lncs}
> >
> > I'm assuming here that the class file
> > is: lncs.cls. If not, then replace "lncs"
> > everywhere by whatever it is.
> >
> > This may "just work". If not, you'll need to start modifying the
> > layout file, especially if lncs provides extra styles that
> aren't in
> > the standard article (book, whatever) class.
> >
> > There's more detail about this in the
> > Customization manual. Feel free to ask here. Lots of us have been
> > through this.
>
> Actually, this information has improved my knowledge of LyX
> but, it does not seem to solve my problems in using LyX with
> the LLNCS layout.
>
> First, even after determining that
>
> 1. llncs.layout is in .\Resources\layouts
>
> 2. llncs.cls is in .\Resource\tex
>
> 3. llncs.cls includes the statement
>
> \LoadClass[twoside]{article}
>
> and then reconfiguring LyX, and then restarting LyX,
>
> 1. document class (Springer LNCS) is marked as being
> unavailable within the Document/Settings
>
> 2. I appear to be no closer to understanding how to use the
> llncs.cls and llncs.layout files.
>
> Have you any more suggestions?
>
> > > Also, I have noted that when I tried to load a .dem file
> (the LNCS
> > > demo file), that LyX did properly complain of the file
> type (opening
> > > a dialog box to announce the problem) but, it kept the
> icon for the
> > > mouse pointer as an hourglass, instead of converting it
> to an arrow.
> > >
> > > Yes, I understand that LyX wants to
> > > load .lyx files.
> > >
> > >
> > What is a .dem file? Is it really a .tex file?
> >
> > rh
>
> My point here was to highlight a interesting behavior in the
> LyX executable. It was thus correspondingly not point out a
> faux pax of
> mine: trying to load a file that is not one which LyX is
> expecting to open.
>
> I now do not know what is a .dem file.
>
>
>
