Hi all, All of a sudden three of my books stopped compiling to PDF. Not surprising, their layouts weren't in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts.
What *was* surprising was that three of my books *did* compile to PDF, in spite of an empty /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts. A quick check showed that those books had a layout file in the same directory as the book. I know for some time the LyX developers have been trying mightily to make books always compile with a layout file in the same directory as the LyX file, but as of LyX 1.6 this feature was on-again/off-again, and meanwhile if you had the layout file both locally and in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts, you got all sorts of intermittent problems when compiling. So back in the 1.6.x days my "solution" was to name all my layout files with an extension of "locallay" and symlink them with the correctly names .layout in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts. If current directory layout files now work correctly consistently in 2.0.0, I'll rename the .locallay files and have a local layout file for every book, and have no symlinks in ~/.lyx200/layouts. After all, every book has its own layout file, and I would never use a single layout file globally. So, does LyX 2.0.0 *ALWAYS AND CONSISTENTLY* use the named .layout file located in the same directory as the LyX file? Thanks StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
