On 03/25/2010 06:20 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2010-03-23, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt<[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote:
I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments and
character styles might be to start a public collection of them. ...
Don't we already have that with the CTAN archive? Why create a
separate LyX one when the LaTeX part of CTAN already exists?
Because CTAN contains the *LaTeX* packages/classes while for using
them in LyX, we need *in addition to them* also LyX modules/layouts.
This need for definitions on both, LyX and LaTeX levels is a main
reason why creating/editing LyX layouts is such a complex task.
(And also the base for much frustation for people with either a just a
LyX layout or just a LaTeX class or package.)
That said, beamer includes a LyX layout, and I would expect that many
other classes would be happy to include layouts, too, if someone
provided one. Alternatively, or additionally, we could ask the CTAN
folks to create a place for LyX layouts, rather than hosting them on our
own server.
rh
