On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:33:19PM +0200, Hassoun Karam wrote:
> I am using Lyx 1.3.3 on MacOsX and very satisfied with it. I am trying
> to create a .layout file for a .cls one.
>
> Though having read the Customization file in the Help menu (and most of
> the mailings related to layout, cls, customization, and some web sites),
> I still could not find the solution. From what I understood, a .layout
> file is an interface for Lyx to talk to Latex.
>
> So I copied most of the .cls content into the Preamble|EndPreamble (in
> the .layout file).
That's not necessary. The second line in the .layout takes care of that:
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[scrartcl]{rel}
The .layout is only necessary to adjust appearances of paragraph layouts
within LyX.
> I guess there should be another elegant way to do so. What are the
> minimum requirements for a layout to talk to latex? any examples?
Just use article.layout.
Andre'
