I'm a veteran LaTeX user along with a few others who are trying to wean other colleagues away from
Word and over to LaTeX. Lyx was suggested as an alternative. I've tried importing working .tex files to Lyx but it destroys some environments like verbatim, i.e. it removes the linebreaks which are vital to the working of the verbatim mode. I read that Lyx supports the listings package so I converted all my code listings done with verbatim over to lstlisting environments but it still destroys them on import. My .layout file for my non-standard .cls file includes all the standard .inc files including stdinsets. Is this a fundamental design feature of Lyx that it can't deal with importing some types of environments? Is there something I am missing in my .layout file that would import them properly? Is there a way of scripting the import to put listings in what seems to be called an ERT? What I'm trying to develop here is a way of sharing the same .tex file between LaTeX users and Lyx users without it getting corrupted in the import/export. If this is a fundamentally undoable operation, does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives like Texnicenter, Winshell, or TexWork that can do this. Scientific Word is probably out of the running due to its high cost. Any help would be appreciated. Sandy
