I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. It's very easy to make an article, a book or whaterver you want, but as soon as you want to make somthing else (eg : a thesis, ...), it's a little more complicated and if you are not a programer or a Latex user, it's a little hard.
Would it be hard to propose a system that would allow users to define themselves the classes they want, in a simple way (eg : like OpenOffice does for exemple, so I could define 9 parts/ chapters/ titles/ sections/ subsections/ subsubsection/ subsubsubsubsection and so on...) ?
We have discussed such a system earlier, and to put it bluntly, it is probably never going to happen. It is not impossible, but it is very hard to do. First it needs to construct the latex and lyx class files, which is
no, it is easy, because you have to define it in LaTeX and then only to add this to the LyX layout file.
complicated. It then needs to advocate good layout. And this is the hardest bit, most lyx/latex classes have a high typographical standard. Letting the user shoot him/herself in the (layout-)foot ;-), is probably a bad ide.
I suppose, that you do not really understand the difference between a LaTeX classfile and a corresponding LyX layout file.
If you want to write a thesis use the memoir or the koma-report class. If you want some fancy fliers use kword. Ot rather use the correct tool for the task.
no, he should look for an existing thesis class, there are a lot of such specific document classes in the net.
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