styles for medicine, patient records..
does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? thanks in advance Bruce
Re: styles for medicine, patient records..
Bruce Muirhead wrote: does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? Depends a lot on what you need. For easy, consider using the existing report class for lab reports. You can of course make a template document if you have some standard stuff that goes in all of your lab reports. You should check out whether a well made template document does the job, or if the standard classes really lack something cruical. You can of course search the net for latex classes that do what you want. If you can't find any, you'll have to roll your own. This requires quite a bit of latex knowledge, but it is possible to pick up all that knowledge as you go. Get a good latex manual or two. Some knowledge of typography or programming will be useful. After you find or make a latex class, you need to make a lyx .layout file. Documentation on how to do this comes with lyx, see chapter 5 in help-customization. You will need some latex knowledge here, i.e. exactly how to use the latex class you're going to use. Some people have done this, some find it difficult. You won't find it hard if you're capable of making your own latex class though. This kind of customization can be rather time-consuming in the beginning, but it could save lots of work later. Helge Hafting
styles for medicine, patient records..
does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? thanks in advance Bruce
Re: styles for medicine, patient records..
Bruce Muirhead wrote: does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? Depends a lot on what you need. For easy, consider using the existing report class for lab reports. You can of course make a template document if you have some standard stuff that goes in all of your lab reports. You should check out whether a well made template document does the job, or if the standard classes really lack something cruical. You can of course search the net for latex classes that do what you want. If you can't find any, you'll have to roll your own. This requires quite a bit of latex knowledge, but it is possible to pick up all that knowledge as you go. Get a good latex manual or two. Some knowledge of typography or programming will be useful. After you find or make a latex class, you need to make a lyx .layout file. Documentation on how to do this comes with lyx, see chapter 5 in help-customization. You will need some latex knowledge here, i.e. exactly how to use the latex class you're going to use. Some people have done this, some find it difficult. You won't find it hard if you're capable of making your own latex class though. This kind of customization can be rather time-consuming in the beginning, but it could save lots of work later. Helge Hafting
styles for medicine, patient records..
does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? thanks in advance Bruce
Re: styles for medicine, patient records..
Bruce Muirhead wrote: does anyone know if there are existing classes which suit the medical profession for things such as patient records and laboratory reports? Or, is there something which could easily be modified? Or, where would I begin designing something like that myself? Depends a lot on what you need. For "easy", consider using the existing "report" class for lab reports. You can of course make a template document if you have some standard stuff that goes in all of your lab reports. You should check out whether a well made template document does the job, or if the standard classes really lack something cruical. You can of course search the net for latex classes that do what you want. If you can't find any, you'll have to roll your own. This requires quite a bit of latex knowledge, but it is possible to pick up all that knowledge as you go. Get a good latex manual or two. Some knowledge of typography or programming will be useful. After you find or make a latex class, you need to make a lyx .layout file. Documentation on how to do this comes with lyx, see chapter 5 in help->customization. You will need some latex knowledge here, i.e. exactly how to use the latex class you're going to use. Some people have done this, some find it difficult. You won't find it hard if you're capable of making your own latex class though. This kind of customization can be rather time-consuming in the beginning, but it could save lots of work later. Helge Hafting
