Indeed there is no trace of any LyX layout file for Quanta. However, I don't think you have to go the customized layout route.
I tried (with LyX 2.2.3) to import (File > Import > LaTeX (plain)) the LaTeX template called Manuscript.tex (it's available on the quanta site) and it creates a LyX file that's not too bad as a start. When I generated the PDF, it took some time to install the missing packages/fonts on my MikTeX install, and it resulted in a few errors with "Option clash" for both babel and graphicx. There are several packages that seem to be superfluously loaded in the preamble (Document > Settings > LaTeX preamble). Commenting them out worked. The result looks close to what is on their site, with figures, etc. One problem I spotted was with the bibliography/citations that are not correct (the template has \bibitem and I think LyX works best with a separate file, especially if you want to have [4-7] instead of [4, 5, 6, 7] citations). Converting the \bibitem in the template is not trivial (there is tex2bib, but it's perl and needs Linux or a Mac probably). You likely have your own database of references? On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:17 PM Paul A. Rubin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > See > > http://quanta.ws/ojs/index.php/quanta/about/submissions#authorGuidelines > . > > > > 5-lines from top it mentions the Journal’s LaTeX template. > > > > 11-lines from top it mentions their approval of LyX. > > > > I would like to bring the QUANTA journal template into LyX, so that is > > available when required (from within LyX). > > > > Thank you. > You will need to find (or create) a LyX layout file, which tells LyX how > to map elements of their template to GUI elements. See Chapter 5 of the > LyX Customization manual for the gory details. Since they mention that > they accept LyX files, it is possible that a layout file already exists > ... but it does not seem to be one of the layouts included with LyX, and > they make no mention of it on their site. You might email their > editorial office and ask whether they know of one before going through > the hassle of building your own. > > Paul > >
