On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:35:48PM -0600, Bo Peng wrote:
> >
> > > 1. What is prosper 2? prosper2.cls claims itself a newer version but the
> > > newest version on http://sourceforge.net/projects/prosper is 1.004. Is
> > > it a CVS file?
> >
> > The prosper.cls and prosper2.cls are probably similar, if I saw the
> > source. That is not the main problem for using the prosper.
> >
> 
> Yes, this is not the source of the problem.
> 
> > > 2. I set my $TEXINPUTS and add prosper directory. "Latex cluster.tex" is
> > > working OK but I could not let lyx recognize prosper class. During
> > > reconfig, it seems that lyx only check standard folders, not all folders
> > > in $TEXINPUTS. What should I do?
> >
> > Installing prosper needs to put the prosper2.cls in directory that latex
> > can reach it (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/prosper/ for my TeX) and the
> > prosper.layout in the directory that lyx can reach it, eg.
> > $HOME/.lyx/layout/ or /usr/X11R6/share/lyx/layout/. Then run texhash to
> > re-built TeX database and later open lyx and run Edit --> Reconfigure.
> 
> The problem is that I do not have the privilege to write to
> /usr/site/tkTeX/tex, so I
> have to use $TEXINPUTS to point to my personal folder. It turns out that
> latex
> can reach this folder via $TEXINPUTS so it can compile cluster.tex but lyx
> just reconfig packages under standard latex directory. The error message is
> "The document
> uses an unknown class "prosper" ...
> 

You need to put the layout file in your ~/.lyx/layouts, then, and then
do an Edit->Reconfigure 

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