On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 04:09:55PM -0400, Sarjoun Skaff wrote: > Hi, ... > This leads me to assume that classes have to be modified to work with LyX, > is this correct?
No. Existing classes work unmodified, provided you build the corresponding
.layout file for them.
> If yes, why didn't the documentation say so? I have spent
> an enormous amount of energy just trying to understand if I could directly
> use an IEEE class provided by a conference. Now I think that the answer is
> no.
I expect the answer is yes... and I even expect that we have an existing
layout file that would work with just minimal modifications.
> Problem with title pages
> ========================
> I was able to format a title page for my proposal document written with the
> Article class. I added the following to the preamble:
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{myTitlePage},
>
> where myTitlePage.sty is adapted from Herbert Voss's style page
> (http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/www-user/help/titlepage/Attic/myTitl
> ePage.sty?rev=1.2).
>
> However, I am unable to use this style file for my thesis, probably because
> I'm using the Book class. I get the following error: LaTeX Error:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] undefined. The same problem happens when I use the Report
> class,
> but disappears if I use the Article class.
Confirmed.
A quick fix is to replace \renewcommand on line 17 by \newcommand.
(Yes, I'm sorry, you have to know a little LaTeX programming language
for this :-( )
- Martin
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