William R. Buckley wrote:
Much good information has come from Bob Lounsbury. Thank you
for the attention to detail. Where would I have been expected to
read of the requirement to create such a texmf sub-directory, given
that it was not created automatically by either MiKTeX or LyX?
It isn't necessary. (See below.) And, in any event, there's some
discussion of this in Customization 5.1, though it doesn't direct itself
to Windows specifically.
LyX won't create such directories. This is a TeX thing, not a LyX thing.
And MikTeX won't create them because it's a user-level thing, not a
system-level thing.
Indeed, why was such a directory not so automatically created, when it is
apparently of some need to the system that these directories exist?
As foreshadowed above, it isn't necessary. You can put the new class
files into the main TeX directories if you want. The danger in doing so
is that these directories can be over-written on an upgrade.
I did follow the given advice, and created a *texmf* directory, then
added the .\tex\latex and .\tex\bibtex\ .... sub-directories.
These acts were followed by adding a root path to MiKTeX2.7
settings, and reconfiguring the file name database. Actually, we
have performed this act about five times. I have even changed the
search order for these roots, and then updated the database. So,
the layout file shows up in the TeX Information but, in the Document
Settings, the document class Springer LNCS shows up as unavailable.
Did you also reconfigure LyX? Start LyX; Tools>Reconfigure; close LyX;
restart LyX. (This is all covered in Customization section 5.1, in case
you're wondering.)
Thus, may we return to a previous question?
I did find adjacent to the <user config> directory a
reference to LyX15, and in that directory one may
find a file called textclass.lst, within which one
finds the following lines:
> "article" "article" "article" "true"
>
> "llncs" "springer" "article (Springer LNCS)" "false"
Why should this file textclass.lst be so constructed?
This file is created by LyX's configure.py script, which gets run when
you choose Tools>Reconfigure.
It might be of interest that some hacking did produce some positive
results, though not quite what I need. Basically, I put the class and
style files in the same directory as my .lyx file, and modified the
\textclass to be llncs. Under this condition, I could generate a PDF.
LyX allows the use of "local" class and layout files, in precisely this way.
rh
