Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
Hello Steve,
In the 7 years I've used LyX, every book had its own layout, and every single
time, I spent hours tweaking around trying to get my layout visible to the
document so that I could use my specialized document class.
FYI with Layout modules in 1.6 (courtesy of Richard H.) you will at
least be able to reuse components of your modified layouts.
What I typically do is:
1) Make the layout file
2) ln -s /bookdir/mybook.layout /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts/mybook.layout
3) Doublecheck the line that says # \DeclareLaTeXClass[book]{mybook}, make
sure it matches the filenames.
4) lyx
5) tools->reconfigure
6) exit lyx
7) lyx mybook.lyx
It never shows document class mybook, until I turkey around for hours to get
it to work. We need documentation on exactly what to do, and how to
troubleshoot layouts/document classes.
See section 5.2 of the Customization manual. You are welcome to
complement that part and to send patches to Uwe and to the documentation
list. That's how it works for documentation.
Abdel.
