Andoni Beristain wrote:
Good morning,
I am quite new to Lyx and I have a problem that I think, it should be quite
common. I am writting a paper for a conference and obviously it must be written
using their specific format. The conference provide authors with a
their_class.cls LaTex class file, a their_bib.bib, bibtex bibliography
reference format, a sample sample.tex file and a sample .pdf file. They also
provide a MS Word document template.
Please see chapter 5 of the Customization manual, where this issue is
discussed in some detail. What you need is a "layout" file that goes
with your new class: Without such a file, LyX does not know about your
new class. Writing the layout file can be easy or it can be hard. It
depends how much the new class file you have diverges from some class
for which there is already a layout. Fortunately, these files are
usually based fairly closely upon some basic class, so this can
sometimes be trivial.
I have tried to import the sample.tex to Lyx (File->Import->LaTex (plain)), but I get the message:
An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f "sample.tex" "sample.lyx".
This error is independent of the class--layout problem. For some reason
tex2lyx is choking on the sample file. There are various reasons this
could be. The best way for you to start figuring this out is to run
tex2lyx from a terminal, where you'll hopefully get more error messages.
rh
I have also tried to make the LaTex class provided by the conference team available from
Lyx. I have tried this in two ways: first, I have copied the .cls file to
(...\LyX15\Resources\tex). Then I have opened Lyx again and used the reconfigure
function (tools->Reconfigure). But when I create a new document, the new class
doesn't appear in the list of available classes. Second, I have copied the .cls file to
the base class folder of my MikTex installation (...\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base), keeping
the file copied in the previous step. I have used the reescan feature for LaTex classes
(tools->Tex Information->Rescan), but the new class is missing.
Could you give me any help or directions about how to import a Tex "document
template" to Lyx?
Thank you very much and I look forward to hear from you soon.
P.D.:
O.S. Windows XP SP2
Lyx 1.5.4
MikTex 2.7
