Re: Ongoing problems with 1.3.6pre on windows

[Paul A. Rubin]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:


Out of curiosity really, but if lyx knows where miktex or equivalent is 
why doesn't it find these layout ifles automatically - or is this 
particular to beamer.


Perhaps not a complete answer, but LyX ships with a set of "common" 
layouts (whose locations it obviously knows) and expects the user to 
provide layouts for other classes.  Generally the latter are either 
created by the user or obtained from the ether, as it were, so it would 
not be practical for LyX to go hunt for them.

Beamer's a bit of a special case, in that (a) the author of Beamer has 
graciously included a LyX layout file and (b) it comes with the Beamer 
package and hence in a predictable location.

-- Paul