On 03/23/2012 10:25 AM, Jan Helebrant wrote:
Hi all,
as I am totally disgusted and angry after trying to force Word to produce file
compatible with Oxford Journals Radiation Protection Dosimetry and I also would
like to try LYX, I tried to install their latex template from here:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip
they have some info for authors here:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/instructions.html
I have linux version of lyx 2.0.3 + tetex 3.0.19 (installed automatically with
lyx from repository, linux is Pclinuxos 2012, KDE4).
First I must say, that I read tutorials here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts
and also some info about the files
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Concepts
I tried to follow them, but I am totally unable to make the class available.
Can anybody advise me, where should I put those files? The package consists of:
Rpd.cls 28 KB 9.4.2004 12:29:14
amsbsy.sty 4 KB 8.4.2004 16:58:36
amsfonts.sty 8 KB 8.4.2004 16:59:48
amsgen.sty 6 KB 8.4.2004 16:58:16
amsmath.sty 81 KB 8.4.2004 16:57:44
amsopn.sty 6 KB 8.4.2004 16:58:52
amssymb.sty 16 KB 8.4.2004 16:59:30
amstext.sty 4 KB 8.4.2004 16:58:00
amsthm.sty 14 KB 8.4.2004 17:00:04
color.cfg 1 KB 8.4.2004 17:01:28
color.sty 7 KB 8.4.2004 16:59:08
crop.cfg 2 KB 29.3.2004 12:18:28
crop.sty 13 KB 8.4.2004 16:56:10
document.pdf 40 KB 9.4.2004 12:31:02
document.tex 16 KB 9.4.2004 12:30:44
documentation.doc 23 KB 8.4.2004 18:50:26
flushend.sty 6 KB 31.5.2001 20:49:38
graphics.cfg 1 KB 8.4.2004 17:00:52
graphics.sty 14 KB 8.4.2004 16:56:30
graphicx.sty 8 KB 8.4.2004 16:57:10
keyval.sty 3 KB 8.4.2004 16:57:26
times.sty 1 KB 8.4.2004 17:00:20
trig.sty 4 KB 8.4.2004 16:56:46
I tried various locations including /home/jan.helebrant/texmf/tex/latex/, used
texhash and reconfigured LYX many times but the class is still unavailable.
Stefano's advice was good. The only thing I'd add is to put all these
files somewhere
like
/home/jan.helebrant/texmf/tex/latex/config/rpd/
so as not to confuse LaTeX, as many of these files are ones you'll
already have, in fact, with any TeX installation.
So get these installed simply so LaTeX can see them, as Stefano
suggested. Then it's on
to creating a layout file, without which LyX doesn't know the class
exists. I've had a look at
the file, and, though it's not based on article.cls, it looks pretty
much like a standard article
sort of class. So you might actually get away with just doing this:
cd ~/.lyx/layouts/
That's your local LyX layouts directory.
cp /usr/share/lyx/layouts/article.layout Rpd.layout
Note how the name of the layout file corresponds to the name of the
class file. Now open that file in your favorite text editor, e.g.:
kate Rpd.layout
The first two lines look like:
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article}
Change the second one to something like:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (RPD)}
Save the file. Now open LyX and do Tools>Reconfigure. Then close LyX
again, and re-open it. You now out to have "article (RPD)" as an option,
and you can also try importing the document.tex file that they provide.
If you have problems, ask here again.
Richard
