On 09/03/2011 4:31 AM, Mark Dickinson wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if you can help. I'm a complete LaTeX novice, but need to produce
some exam scripts using a .sty produced by our hardcore LaTeX users (as usual
there are two camps - the LaTeX users and the MS Word users!). I don't have
tome to learn command line stuff hence I thought I'd try LyX. I'm on a Mac OS
10x and have installed MacTex and Lyx. Seems to all work fine except when I
try to use the attached .tex and.sty files (these are an example exam script
for our undergraduates). I get errors (suggesting the /question def needs a
number and that there are missing { and }. Needless to say these files work
perfectly in LaTeX. Is this a bug in LyX or some other incompatibility?
Any help gratefully received,
Ma
Hi there,
You will need either a .layout or a .module file (in your case most
likely a .module file). Such files are used to customize LyX so that it
will interface with custom LaTeX document class and/or packages. A
description of the syntax for such files is in the customization manual
that you find in LyX's help menu.
In your case, LyX doesn't know what to do with non-standard LaTeX
macros---as in \question---and environments---as in this:
\begin{exam}
...
\end{exam}.
So you want to describe those in your .module file.
Besides that, in your .tex file you will want to put all the \def...
lines after these two lines:
\begin{document}
\maketitle
This last point is necessary due to the way in which the .tex to .lyx
converter operates. I suppose it is not general enough, and you could
consider this a bug, but the workaround is simple.
--
Julien
