Layout files are just simple text files that have been saved with the .layout
extensions. You then place this file in the "layouts" subdirectory of your LyX
user directory.
(To see where your LyX user directory is located, simply click on Help > About,
or if using Mac, Application Menu > About.)
There are some good links from the LyX Wiki (which you reference), though I
would also take a look at Steve Litt's guides to layouts. There's some very
helpful advice there. About a year ago, I wrote a small series that looks at
creating layouts and various ways of customizing LyX. You can find those
articles (and a few other LaTeX related things) at:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/writing/latex
If you have any specific questions, you can always post those here as well. To
my knowledge, all the developers subscribe to the users list and they are all
very nice people.
Cheers,
Rob
On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:58 PM, emant777 wrote:
>
> This might be an obvious question but I can't figure out how to make the
> layout file itself.
> I was reading http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts
> and I want to type something like this into the file:
> **
> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
> # \DeclareLaTeXClass[acmsiggraph]{ACM SigGraph}
>
> # Read the definitions from article.layout
> Input article.layout
> ***
> but I can't figure out how to create the file into which I am supposed to
> type this. Please help. Thank you.
>
>
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