I think it's definitely windows text editors that have been causing me the
problems. I went and edited the file you gave me by deleting the Preamble
and it stopped working correctly. I've tried both windows notepad and
wordpad are these known problems or do I not have some settings correct?
Danny
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Danny Parker <dparke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks again. I got mixed results but ultimately successful. I tried
> making the changes you suggested, reconfigured, restarted and I got the same
> error. I then downloaded the file you included and it worked. When I
> opened your file in notepad to see what was different I noticed that yours
> showed the formatting characters. For example where there should be line
> returns there were boxes and the next word didn't start on the next line. I
> wonder if notepad was putting control characters in that were causing the
> error.
>
> I'd also like to understand why that fixed my problem. From my
> understanding the arguments in the [ ] are the necessary classes and the { }
> is what is displayed in LyX. Inside my msuthesis.cls there is a line
>
>
> \LoadClass[letterpaper,12pt,oneside,onecolumn,openany,final,titlepage]{book}
>
> so I thought it was derived from the book class and thus needed the
> [msuthesis,book]. This is almost exactly the case in 5.2.4. Did I
> misunderstand the help file? Thanks again for all your help. It's much
> appreciated.
>
> Danny
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
>
>> Danny Parker wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the help.
>>>
>>> I see now that my example was too simplistic but I'm still having the
>>> same problem. I'm actually trying to do what is in 5.2.4 and my layout file
>>> is msuthesis.layout and is save in C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX
>>> 1.6.3\Resources\layouts
>>>
>>> I took the book.layout and changed the \Declare line to include the
>>> msuthesis.cls and to report the name to LyX as msuthesis. I also added the
>>> Preamble as described in 5.2.3. I wasn't sure that I needed that with a
>>> class so I tried it with and without the Preable. I still get the same
>>> errors I described earlier. Also, I've checked to make sure MikTeX has
>>> msuthesis.cls by compiling the example document from the command line. It
>>> created the .ps file correctly. My layout file is below.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry the errors are not very informative. I should fix that.
>>
>> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
>>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass[msuthesis,book]{msuthesis}
>>>
>>> Try taking out what is in the square brackets, thus:
>>
>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{msuthesis}
>>
>> and then make sure you save it as msuthesis.layout. I think this is your
>> problem now.
>>
>> # Book textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
>>> # Author : Matthias Ettrich <ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:
>>> ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>>
>>> # Transposed by Pascal André <an...@via.ecp.fr <mailto:an...@via.ecp.fr
>>> >>
>>> # Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
>>>
>>>
>>> Format 11
>>> Input stdclass.inc
>>> Input numreport.inc
>>>
>>>
>>> Sides 2
>>> PageStyle Headings
>>>
>>>
>>> NoStyle Abstract
>>>
>>>
>>> Style Bibliography
>>> TopSep 4
>>> LabelString "Bibliography"
>>> LabelFont
>>> Series Bold
>>> Size Huge
>>> EndFont
>>> End
>>>
>>> Preamble
>>>
>>> I'd use AddToPreamble here. Otherwise, you overwrite the preamble.
>>
>> \usepackage{msuthesis}
>>> EndPreamble
>>>
>>> Otherwise, it looks as if it should be fine. What I'm attaching works
>> for me, though I do get errors about not having the msuthesis file.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{msuthesis}
>> # Book textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
>> # Author : Matthias Ettrich <ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
>> # Transposed by Pascal André <an...@via.ecp.fr>
>> # Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
>>
>>
>> Format 11
>> Input stdclass.inc
>> Input numreport.inc
>>
>>
>> Sides 2
>> PageStyle Headings
>>
>>
>> NoStyle Abstract
>>
>>
>> Style Bibliography
>> TopSep 4
>> LabelString "Bibliography"
>> LabelFont
>> Series Bold
>> Size Huge
>> EndFont
>> End
>>
>> Preamble
>> \usepackage{msuthesis}
>> EndPreamble
>>
>>
>>
>
