> message that reconfiguration had failed.
Make sure this line is in the layout file. I believe the copy and paste
removed the end of line feed after the #. The line should look like this and
then you should be able to reconfigure.
#
\DeclareLaTeXClass[sciposter,sectionbox.sty,multicol
Although I can now make nice posters using Latex with sciposter.cls, I
still wanted to use Lyx for posters, if possible.
I have tried to use the sciposter.layout for Lyx posted here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63740.html
and stored the layout file in /usr/share/lyx/lay