On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha <mayank25080...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! >> We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes >> from the Latex classes without any prior knowledge of Latex or .layout files >> and at the same time enabling advanced users to tweak the .layout file by >> adding "layout module" created by them either with the help of the GUI >> interface or Latex code. >> Did I miss something ? Am I wrong somewhere ? Please let me know!! > > Hi Mayank, > > I'm not sure what you mean by "which allows one to create document > classes from the LaTeX class". > Scott, It seems to me that this is an issue of vocabulary. What we call here a 'layout' may seem to a newcomer like a 'document class'. I think the confusion is natural, as layouts for LyX are bridges to LaTeX classes. I'm no expert in this but I would think that Mayank grasped the essentials on what we hope to get from this project.
Regards , Liviu > From what I understand, the project is > not about creating document classes. The second part of your sentence > (tweaking .layout files) is what I understand the project to be. > Everything else you put makes sense to me and it sounds like you did a > good job of reading the documentation (note that the layout format has > changed considerably since 2.0 so you should be reading it on your git > checkout). > > Best, > > Scott -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
