On Dec 7, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2011-12-07, Richard Heck wrote: >> >> On 12/07/2011 10:28 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>> I thought in trying to get the formatting capabilities I want by >>> making as few changes to existing formatting documents I would study a >>> few to see if I could understand what is going on and figure out which >>> one[s] might work for me, but I can't find them, either in the home or >>> root directory. >> >> If you search for the file "article.layout", using whatever file search >> facilities OSX provides, that is where the others will also be. > > However, if you want to start from the other end (what a document formatted > with documentclass x looks like), you may > > * look at the documentation PDFs for the document classes that are mostly > written using that document class. Try e.g. starting with scrguien.pdf > (KOMA-script classes) or memman.pdf (memoir). > > * have a look at the "done with LyX" examples on wiki.lyx.org > > * Load and compile the examples and templates that come with LyX: > > File>New from Template > > or > > File>Open (and in the file-finder dialogue click on the [Examples] > button in the top-right corner)
Thanks, Guenter. I'll be doing that. And along that line, I've discovered that under view/view source I can see the LaTeX code for whatever document I've got open. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA eew...@bellsouth.net "Style is truth." - Ray Bradbury
