On Sunday 05 December 2004 20:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > Hello LyX users. > > I'm trying to coach a student through a dissertation using LyX, and I've > not used LyX for anything bigger than an article (so far). > > I found online at the U of Texas a dissertation format for LaTeX, and I > can make it work with LaTeX, but when I use relyx to grab it into Lyx, I > end up with some pretty serious problems. > > Here's the URL > > http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/etd/LaTeX/index.html > > The one I'm trying is utdiss2, which comes complete with a "main > document" disstemplate.tex which includes several other files. > > The relyx import properly creates the main document and lyx files for > the included chapters and appendices. If you want to try it and see, it > won't take more than a couple of minutes. Unfortunately, after > importing in LyX, the latex command generates many errors, and I have a > hard time figuring out what's going on.
tex2lyx that will come in 1.4 does usually a better job than relyx. > 4. Suppose I solved those LaTeX problems. Then I'd like to write a LyX > layout "utdiss2" so that users could get at the lemma and theorem > environments that are in the preamble. That's not hard, is it? If I > take the report.layout file from the LyX distro, I can add items? If you take a look into the layout file that come with lyx you will see that it is an easy task. If you have any doubts don't hesitate and call us. :-) > Paul E. Johnson > Political Science > University of Kansas -- Jos� Ab�lio
