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Rich Shepard wrote:

>> At the risk of accusations of heresy . . .if you've already
>> written the text and are comfortable with it, you might find
>> it easier to export the LyX file(s) as LaTeX, and import them
>> and the new .cls file into a good
>> editor like emacs with auctex.

I really don't think that a) it is necessary, b) it is wise.

a) Creation of new .layout file is so simple, that there is
really no cost associated. Just pick the layout which is similar
to your new one (usually either report, article, or book -- most
documents fall into this category; well, except for letters
which are different game altogether) and then copy for every new
paragraph style one from std*.inc and change name of the style
and name of the LaTeX environment. That's it.

b) One of my most costly learned experiences is that there should
be always just ONE source document and if there are any
intermediate documents necessary, they should be ALWAYS (even
five years down the road) reproductible from this original
source document, just with some simple command (preferably
recorded in Makefile). You not only avoid confusion and
discrepancies between the versions, but some other things (like
RCS) do not make sense otherwise.

>> working from LyX, but emacs or some other text editor might be
>> well-suited to the fine formatting and tedious
>> character-by-character massaging when you hear back from the
>> book designer and copy-editor.
> 
>   That's a very good idea.

I really do not think so -- any tweaking you may need to do can
be as easily done with ERT.

Matej

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