On Sunday 12 June 2011 16:44:00 William Harter wrote: > John, > Thanks for the help. > > Did not find "letter.lyx" file but did find a "letter.layout" file in a > "Layouts" folder. > > Also, found a "revtex4.layout" file that (I presume) will help in getting > Lyx to help with Phys. Rev. and other AIP journals. (My main problem, > now.) > > Still need a little guidance in using these since they are not .lyx files > (yet). Bill Harter > Hi Bill
As Uwe said, this appears to be an installation problem; there are lots of templates for you in the standard LyX distribution. There is some coverage of RevTeX in the Additional features manual but, when I last looked at it under 1.6, it was out of date and I was planning to try and update it. But I wasn't able to start until I had LyX 2.0 and I haven't checked to see whether someone has already updated this section. AFAIK the main problem with Document Classes which are not directly supported by LyX is that they have paragraph styles or other features which LyX cannot understand and therefore cannot use. Though LyX is a remarkable program - I have been using it since 2000 - and the developers have done an amazing job over the past four years in extending and documenting its features - the LaTeX ecosystem continues to expand almost exponentially making it very difficult to keep up with everything that is possible in LaTeX, let along LuaTeX and XeTeX and so on. In practice I tend to use LyX to do the fundamentals of a document and then add the other features I need which are as yet unsupported by inserting LaTeX commands once I have got most of the document complete. You may find that the only way you can use a Document Class which LyX doesn't support is to use one which is similar to one you intend to use, do most of the work in LyX, export it as a LaTeX document and edit it with something like Kile to change the Document Class and whatever else needs to be done. BTW are you primarily interested in the Document Classes for the journals you mention or the bibliographic style? If you can manage with a Document Class which is supported by LyX, there is a list of bibliographic styles supported by LyX at http://bradlug.co.uk/wp- content/uploads/2009/02/BibTeX_styles_catalogue_for_LyX.pdf (make sure you get the whole link across the linebreak) John -- > On Jun 11, 2011, at 3:15 PM, John R Hudson wrote: > > On Saturday 11 June 2011 19:48:43 William Harter wrote: > >> Help, please! > >> > >> FROM: > >> Bill Harter > >> University of Arkansas - Physics Dept., > >> http://www.uark.edu/depts/physics/apps/profiles/view/william-harter > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> Just following tutorial after downloading Lyx to I-Mac OS 10.6. Having > >> show-stopping problems with tutorial document involving template issues. > >> > >> 1. Attempting to follow instruction: > >> > >> Open a new file with File->New from Template. Select letter.lyx > >> > >> > >> Result: Empty template folder. > >> > > (Nothing in any > > of these.) > > > > Sorry to hear about your problems. The first appears to be an > > installation failure as my templates folder is fully populated. I attach > > letter.lyx to get you started while you investigate the problem. > > > > The second is probably because the Document Class is not supported by > > LyX; the external program which converts LaTeX documents into LyX format > > only covers the main document classes as you can see if you open > > Document>Settings>Document Class and look at the LyX supported classes. > > > > This list is strictly speaking for problems with the documentation which > > your first query is but, if turns out to be an installation problem, it, > > like the second, may be better asked on the users forum though others on > > this list may be able to help you. > > > > John > > <letter.lyx>
