On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:54:02PM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> 
> I was approached by Manuel de la Torre Juáz from Jet Propulsion Lab with
> this problem: it doesn't work, although it ought to.
> 
> Digging produced the following status.
> 
> - There is a mechanism for detecting whether the class file loads by
> itself natbib. This is the .layout file entry
> 
> ProvidesNatbib          1
> 
> - Unfortunately this doesn't work:
> 
> 1) It doesn't bring up the citep, citet etc. alternatives in the
> citation dialog. Only manually loading natbib does.
> 
> 2) Even if 1) is fixed, it doesn't output citep, citet etc. to LaTeX.
> 
> The attached patches make both these mechanisms respond to the
> ProvidesNatbib textclass flag. I am not sure I did this right -- 
> I am especially uncertain about the handling of the numeric vs.
> author-year thing. Shouldn't this also be in the .layout file if the
> class is loading natbib?
> 
> I suppose that if this solution is acceptable, it should go into 1.4
> also. So Manuel will get it in time for the April EGS meeting in Vienna
> :-)
 

An unrelated problem I ran into: egs.cls frowns upon the
\usepackage{babel} entry that LyX puts into the LaTeX file. Of course it
can be manually removed, but is there a way to suppress this?

- Martin

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