AP Meyer wrote:
> Hello LyXers
Hello, Andre.
First, a warning. This mailing list is very quiet. You'll have a wider
audience if you post to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For submitting a paper to be included in Springer Lecture Notes in
> Computer Science (LNCS) I want to make use of their LaTeX2e
> templates*.
>
> I want to use the LyX editor, but cannot see how I can use the
> templates from llncs2e.zip in LyX. What is the way to go? Do you
> have a LyX template ready?
Allow me to explain the difference between LaTex's .cls and .sty files
and LyX's .layout files.
The LaTeX style files define how the LaTeX compiler will compile your
LaTeX file to generate the typeset document in dvi format. They are
necessarily complex.
The LyX layout files have a far simpler job. They define how LyX
should represent the different environments (sections, subsections,
floats, etc) on the LyX screen.
The stuff in llncs2e.zip will contain everything needed by LaTeX, but
of itself is useless to LyX. LyX needs a llncs.layout file. You
should find just such a layout file in your LyX distribution at
${PREFIX}/share/lyx/layouts/llncs.layout
where your LyX executable is at ${PREFIX}/bin/lyx
If you fire up LyX and open the "LaTeX Configuration" document,
accessible from the Help menu, you should find a section 4.25 llncs.
If LyX hasn't been able to find the llncs LaTeX files, then you
should install the stuff in llncs2e.zip. (Don't forget to reconfigure
the LaTeX tree --- on linux that's usually done by running texhash
from /usr/share/texmf.)
Thereafter, reconfigure LyX (Edit->Reconfigure) and check whether the
"LaTeX Configuration" document now lists llncs as "found".
Assuming it does, your ready to rock. Start a new document, open up
the Layout->Document dialog, set the Document class to llncs and get
busy ;-)
Regards,
--
Angus
