Hello all, (First off, I wish to thank all for your great work, I have been using Lyx for about 4 years, and am truly amazed by the sense of community surrounding all of you.)
I have asked this question before on some other newsgroup, and I did receive some answers, but I am hoping to get a better response through the lyx-users mailing list. I am currently writing a Master's thesis, in Electrical Engineering. My University (Ottawa University, Canada), has not evolved yet to providing recommended thesis layouts, or .sty files, etc... I took upon myself to adapt a thesis class to Ottawa U.'s requirements and was amazed that there was so little available options out there already. The only viable solution I found was to use CU Thesis as a LyX layout was made available. Now this class is very complete, creates many of the necessary prologue pages, but is rather blend, and is very restrictive. The original author was part of the Lyx-effort in some fashion. (http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/latex/thesis/) I am also currently using the IEEETran style for Bibtex, which works very well. It almost seems taboo since I saw so many posts asking for example files or URLs, and very little answers. I am wondering if some of you would be willing to share your experience with Lyx, with Thesis-style documents, with preferred structure (I am currently working on individual files/folders per chapter, but the thesis class makes it impossible to create individual chapters seperately without changing the class, which can be painful). If any of you worked with CU-Thesis, your past woes might help others... Some info: I am currently using the win32-native port of Lyx, version 1.3.2 (great port, BTW, wish we could get more people to insure porting of future versions, such as 1.3.3), but I do not wish to start a new QT-licensing flame war. =) I use Miktex 2.4 and keep it up to date every two weeks. Once more, thank you all for your good work and have a nice week! Eric
