Mike Martell wrote:
Hi:
I've been having a lot of trouble installing a new class for LyX with
my mac. I am hoping to use LyX to write my doctoral dissertation. I
am trying to install the thesis class for my university, authesis.cls.
I have followed the directions, I believe, but am not getting the class to work.
I have placed these files (authesis.cls, aucas.clo, aut10.clo,
auecon.clo) in this location:
users/username/library/texmf/tex/latex/authesis/
OK, this is a very silly question, but did you replace "username" with
your username?
rh
i have placed a layout file (authesis.layout) at this location:
username/libarary/Application Support/Lyx-1.5/layouts
The layout file reads:
#% Do not delete hte line below; configure depens on this
Typos. I don't think they matter, though.
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[authesis]{article (authesis)}
You might need a format tag here, viz:
Format 4
# Input general definitions
Input stdclass.inc
I'd try Input article.layout instead, and get the whole thing.
After doing this, I open terminal typed "texhash"
Try "kpsewhich authesis.cls". If you don't get a sensible response, then
TeX hasn't found it.
and then quit terminal
I went to LyX, reconfigure and i get an error message that says, "The
system reconfiguration has failed. Default textclass is used but LyX
may not be able to work properly. Please reconfigure again if needed."
I close LyX, start it again, and then if I go to Document, Settings, I
do not see the authesis in the document class menu(and the number of
classes I have listed is now much smaller than before i tried to
install this class).
That's because of the reconfigure failure.
What I'd suggest is to try to run the reconfigure directly from
/users/username/libarary/Application Support/Lyx-1.5/. I.e., open a
terminal, go to that directory, and then run "python
/path/to/configure.py". If you can't figure out where that file is,
someone else will know. Anyway, you'll get more helpful error messages then.
rh
