lcaruso wrote: > > Lyx? Latex? Annoyances. > For several months I'm searching for an answer to this: > > "The layout file requested by this document,xxxxxxxxx.layout, > is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX > class or style file required by it is not available. > See the Customization documentation > for more information. > LyX will not be able to produce output." > > You can find answer tentatives, no one with successful application. Void > hints. > > It seems a simple problem. But no answer. > No matter if you're using annoying-windows or annoying-linux. The same > problem, the same no-anwer. > > "This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is > not available." > Wow! So simple? If this is the problem, so let we know, for: > xxxxx.layout --- what xxxxx.cls and xxxxx.sty are required and ... > where to find it, and wher to throw it whether in linux or windows and ... > presto! > > The most inconceivable is why, when we download and install huge ammounts > of software and docs to install LYX and the need, infinite, support packs, > there is the lack of classes or styles!!! > > It should be a test of this (layout) features prior to distribute these > packs! > > I'm writing because I'm intending to use and make other people use Latex > in a average-user reasonable amount of effort. > And because I'm hopping someone with more understanding will offer us the > solution! > > Thank you. > >
Hi there, I've just discovered this problem myself after an update from LyX 1.6.4 to 1.6.5 I tried to use a template: new from template on the file menu and got a warning that whatever I was trying to do would not output as the layout class was not available. I did a search on my windows box for *.layout and found 165 (a coincidence of numeration there! Lyx1.6.5 and 165 files) layout files in this folder: your root drive:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.5\Resources\layouts I tried this: new from template svmono_book.lyx blah blah blah ...LyX will not be able to produce output. Template then finishes loading. Go to tools document settings in your usual way. click layout button and navigate to your root drive:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.5\Resources\layouts and choose related layout. In my case it was svmono.layout I got another pile of warnings saying I had chosen a layout that was not part of the system files and that probably my machine would explode - the last bit is not true. But what I can't fathom is this. The .layout files are quite clearly part of the default installation and quite clearly belong to the great swathe of unavailable classes seen on the documents settings. I haven't seen this happen before and I am unhappy about it. The workaround I have found is unacceptable as I shouldn't be receiving warnings about things that are visible within system folders not being there. I do wish someone else could explain this, wurmglow -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/The-layout-file-requested-by-this-document-is-not-usable-tp4008126p4147568.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
