Simplest thing to do is to, with regard to margins and other things set from the preferences menu is to get it all like you need, and then save the layout as default. For more complicated stuff, like fancy headers and modifications to the sectioning, do the same thing: put your header commands in the preamble and save the layout as default. Or you could put that stuff in the pramble of the existing style file, in lyx/layouts.
If you are serious about making a new style or class, look at http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes or, more to the point, http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?keyword=&question=26 On Sunday 18 November 2001 07:54 pm, you wrote: > Hi. I'm new to this list. I've been finally using lyx heavily because of > the death of my windows partition. So, i now want to make a document > class for the standard document format in the country (I live in > Colombia, and the standards organization in here, Icontec, has > established norms for the presentation of written works, and it's mostly > respected everywhere from schools to universities), which has specific > margins, distances from the top of the paper for titles, and so on. But > i don't really wanna get too deep in it, just want to make something > useful and start using it to death. > > So, is there any HOWTO on making classes and things like that? i'm > already used to the power of lyx with it's handling of math, and i don't > ever want to use a common wordprocessor again (much less one with an > annoying paperclip :) ), but i need to have it to make all Icontec-norm > compliant. Those norms really fit the philosophy of lyx (titles always at > the same distance, margins always the same, etc., so it should be a > great help to not need to fix those manually like in a wordprocessor), > so it should be possible. > > Is there anything like that or do i need to turn into a TeX/LaTeX master > to do it? > > > --------------------------------------- > Microsoft: Writing viruses has never been easier! > Microsoft: The company that made email dangerous > Microsoft: Having a false sense of security was never so expensive > ----- > Jaime Herazo Barrios /"\ > jherazo at geocities dot com \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign > ICQ number: 14721935 X Against HTML Mail, > Yahoo! id: jherazo_1999 / \ and News Too
