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On Friday 19 June 2009 11:55:48 am Danny Parker 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 <dparke...@gmail.com> 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]{bo
> >ok}
> >
> > 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 <rgh...@bobjweil.com> 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
> >>> <ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:
> >>> ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>>
> >>> # Transposed by Pascal André <an...@via.ecp.fr <mailto:an...@via.ecp.fr
> >>>
> >>> # 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 <ettr...@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
> >> # Transposed by Pascal André <an...@via.ecp.fr>
> >> # 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
