I downloaded notepad++ to do the text editing and that seems to have fixed the problem of not being able to edit the files.
Danny On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Danny Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's definitely windows text editors that have been causing me the > problems. I went and edited the file you gave me by deleting the Preamble > and it stopped working correctly. I've tried both windows notepad and > wordpad are these known problems or do I not have some settings correct? > > Danny > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Danny Parker <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks again. I got mixed results but ultimately successful. I tried >> making the changes you suggested, reconfigured, restarted and I got the same >> error. I then downloaded the file you included and it worked. When I >> opened your file in notepad to see what was different I noticed that yours >> showed the formatting characters. For example where there should be line >> returns there were boxes and the next word didn't start on the next line. I >> wonder if notepad was putting control characters in that were causing the >> error. >> >> I'd also like to understand why that fixed my problem. From my >> understanding the arguments in the [ ] are the necessary classes and the { } >> is what is displayed in LyX. Inside my msuthesis.cls there is a line >> >> >> \LoadClass[letterpaper,12pt,oneside,onecolumn,openany,final,titlepage]{book} >> >> so I thought it was derived from the book class and thus needed the >> [msuthesis,book]. This is almost exactly the case in 5.2.4. Did I >> misunderstand the help file? Thanks again for all your help. It's much >> appreciated. >> >> Danny >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:20 AM, rgheck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Danny Parker wrote: >>> >>>> Thanks for the reply. I appreciate the help. >>>> >>>> I see now that my example was too simplistic but I'm still having the >>>> same problem. I'm actually trying to do what is in 5.2.4 and my layout >>>> file >>>> is msuthesis.layout and is save in C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX >>>> 1.6.3\Resources\layouts >>>> >>>> I took the book.layout and changed the \Declare line to include the >>>> msuthesis.cls and to report the name to LyX as msuthesis. I also added the >>>> Preamble as described in 5.2.3. I wasn't sure that I needed that with a >>>> class so I tried it with and without the Preable. I still get the same >>>> errors I described earlier. Also, I've checked to make sure MikTeX has >>>> msuthesis.cls by compiling the example document from the command line. It >>>> created the .ps file correctly. My layout file is below. >>>> >>>> I'm sorry the errors are not very informative. I should fix that. >>> >>> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this >>>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass[msuthesis,book]{msuthesis} >>>> >>>> Try taking out what is in the square brackets, thus: >>> >>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{msuthesis} >>> >>> and then make sure you save it as msuthesis.layout. I think this is your >>> problem now. >>> >>> # Book textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code >>>> # Author : Matthias Ettrich <[email protected]<mailto: >>>> [email protected]>> >>>> # Transposed by Pascal André <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected] >>>> >> >>>> # Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers. >>>> >>>> >>>> Format 11 >>>> Input stdclass.inc >>>> Input numreport.inc >>>> >>>> >>>> Sides 2 >>>> PageStyle Headings >>>> >>>> >>>> NoStyle Abstract >>>> >>>> >>>> Style Bibliography >>>> TopSep 4 >>>> LabelString "Bibliography" >>>> LabelFont >>>> Series Bold >>>> Size Huge >>>> EndFont >>>> End >>>> >>>> Preamble >>>> >>>> I'd use AddToPreamble here. Otherwise, you overwrite the preamble. >>> >>> \usepackage{msuthesis} >>>> EndPreamble >>>> >>>> Otherwise, it looks as if it should be fine. What I'm attaching works >>> for me, though I do get errors about not having the msuthesis file. >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this >>> # \DeclareLaTeXClass{msuthesis} >>> # Book textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code >>> # Author : Matthias Ettrich <[email protected]> >>> # Transposed by Pascal André <[email protected]> >>> # Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers. >>> >>> >>> Format 11 >>> Input stdclass.inc >>> Input numreport.inc >>> >>> >>> Sides 2 >>> PageStyle Headings >>> >>> >>> NoStyle Abstract >>> >>> >>> Style Bibliography >>> TopSep 4 >>> LabelString "Bibliography" >>> LabelFont >>> Series Bold >>> Size Huge >>> EndFont >>> End >>> >>> Preamble >>> \usepackage{msuthesis} >>> EndPreamble >>> >>> >>> >> >
