> On Jul 13, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> >> >> >> On 07/13/2011 09:34 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >> >> Where do I start? Perhaps better, how do I go about creating a layout for a >> document type. >> > This is an advanced matter....
Hadn't considered that, Richard. I assumed starting with simple document types it might not be so difficult. On the other hand, maybe what I'm talking about is not writing layouts but creating templates. Is it possible this might not even require looking at layouts? > The sort of thing > you want to do would probably be quite easy with the memoir class, or > perhaps with one of the koma-script classes (probably the article one, > since it looks as if you do not need chapters here), all of which > provide "hooks" for customizing the appearance of the headings, title, > etc. Both of these have extensive documentation (memman.pdf, > scrguien.pdf), and various people here have plenty of experience with > these classes. I'm intrigued by both memoir and koma. And maybe the standard classes are as good a place to start? The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. The former does not even obviously address installation. > As I said, that is the LaTeX side of things. On the LyX side, you have > to write a layout file for your new class. If it's based on the > koma-script article class, scrartcl.cls, say, then this is fairly easy. > Let's say your new class is myclass.cls. Then you copy scrartcl.layout > to myclass.layout and make a few modifications, so the document looks in > LyX kind of like it looks when printed. In my poking around on my system I have yet to come across a file with a layout extension. Where might I find them? And again, might simply creating templates in LyX accomplish what I need, at least for the short run, while I gradually learn more about LaTeX? Regards, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected]
