Sorry everyone, please ignore this. My problems are to do with
understanding the custom style (it does it's own thing about titles, and
I shouldn't try to put one in the doc.)
Jim
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 14:56 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With help from #latex I have got my local latex environment set up, so
> that I can run pdflatex on a simple tex file which uses the custom
> style. When I try to use the style in a lyx doc though, by adding this
> to the preamble:
>
> \usepackage{StuS13}
>
> then C-X P gives the error
> ----------------------
> \maketitle
>
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Jim
>
> On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 12:39 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 11:45 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > I have a custom sty that I need to use and read about adding to the
> > > > Latex search path. In my .bashrc I now have
> > > >
> > > > export TEXINPUTS=".:~/latex/styles//:"
> > > >
> > > > and a sty file in that dir.
> > > I think this sets where TeX looks for source files.
> > > > Lyx can't find it though. I get "Latex
> > > > error: can't find file StuS13.sty". Is there something else I need to
> > > > do?
> > > >
> > > You LaTeX distribution should set up a local tree for you. In my case,
> > > it's ~/texmf/. What path this is is set in the texmf.cnf file, viz:
> > > TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf. You can change this if you want.
> > >
> > I have the tetex packacges installed on ubuntu, but no local tree that
> > I'm aware of. No ~/texmf anyway...I tried to to set this up on a
> > different PC (same OS etc) but now I can't even set the env var. Bash
> > complains:
> >
> > bash: ~/latex/:: No such file or directory
> > bash: ~/texmf/:: No such file or directory
> >
> > I think my setup is missing something but I can't figure out what it is.
> > Any ideas where to look? I could always move this sty file into the
> > place where the system ones are kept (if I knew where that was!) but I'm
> > sure that's not sustainable.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > > Note that your tree here should be structured like your main TeX tree. So
> > > I put my custom style files into $TEXMFHOME/tex/latex/heck/; bst files
> > > undero $TEXMFHOME/tex/bibtex/; and so forth.
> > >
> > > And finally, you need to run texhash whenever you add or remove anything.
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
