On 04-Jan-2000 Herbert Voss wrote:
> "Tracy T. Lunt" wrote:
>>
>> I have ben having a class problem with LyX. In Layout -> Document ->
>> Class I see all of LaTeX's common classes, but I don't see the LyX classes
>> (such as hollywood, broadway, ejour2, etc.) which are found in
>> /usr/local/share/lyx/tex. I didn't even realize there were supposed to be
>> additional classes until I tried to add in a new thesis class and found
>> these others.
>>
>> Are these classes indeed supposed to show up in the online class
>> selection? If so, any idea why they aren't being recognized?
>
> set a symbolic link
> ln -s /usr/local/share/lyx/tex /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx
>
> or copy the /usr/local/share/lyx/tex/ files to
> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex/lyx/
>
> the tex-directory might be /usr/share/texmf/..., than
> correct the above path.
>
> and than run texconfig and reconfigure LyX too, from menu options.
All that won't work!!! If you want LyX being able to work with different
LaTeX-Classes you have to write a Layout-File (/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts),
for every class you want supported. There is some documentation on how to
do this in the LyX Help files (thought not really very explaining :).
Greets J�rgen
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