Having used Word (4,5 95, 97) for many years in industry (it was a corporate standard)
and at home, and having also used many other document preparation tools on Windoze and
Unix, I would like to add my tuppence worth to this. Just to be clear, this is not a
rant against word, but a comment tha
Yes, I had in mind the input markup being of use in 20 years time, as opposed to the
output format de jour. I have in my collections some old files in runnof (from Prime
computers amongst others) and nroff files that I can readily access with vi. This
works of course only if you have the means
Recently I hada similar problem on Mandrake Linux, and I have found that the
new style files installed under the TeX tree at /usr/share/texmf/ etc have
permissions of 600, ie only root can read them, this of course stops lyx
from noticing them.
1. make sure the class/style files have read permiss
