Hello,
I'm sorry to post such a lame question to the list but this is my situation:
I'm a Linux system Administrator and as such, know a bit about using Linux, but I
don't know a thing about LyX, LaTeX or TeX, or any form of typesetting. My church,
after examining all the options on all platforms, including things like Quark and
Ventura, has decided to use LyX for some publications due to the fact that we have
lots of trouble with footnotes in all the other commercial software, and lyX seems
like it can fix that. So I have set up a SuSE Linux box for them to try running lyx
on.
Everything's been going well until they decided to make a new class file. It's
actually a set of .cls, .sty and .clo files that they previously set up and got
working in some application on windows -- I belive it was Winshell or WinTeX, if that
sounds correct ( I know it wasn't MikTeX).
We have the LyY Users' Guide and other online stuff, a few books about LaTeX and one
book about LyX specifically, I can't remember the name of the book. I do know that the
book is somewhat out of date, for example it talks about using Options>Reconfigure,
and I see now that Reconfigure is under Edit.
Before I go any further I should note that I am using the very latest version of lyx,
I downloaded it just today (1.1.6fix2-1 I belive, before now we've been using fix1-2),
not the version that came with SuSE. This could possibly be the source of some of my
troubles, since SuSE had a very complex .lyxrc that was obviously there for a reason,
but the lyx from lyx.org choked over it so we had to delete it.
The instructions for installing new classes and styles aren't terribly clear but I did
see a section that to my memory read something like this:
" To install a new class file (.cls) place it under $UserDir/layouts/ or
$LyxDir/layouts, choose Options>Reconfigure and restart lyx. "
That's not verbatim, but it is close. Now I can say this: the class we're trying to
install is called bookCP.cls, and I have placed that file, along with bookCP.sty, in
~/.lyx/layouts/ /usr/share/lyx/layouts and /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ after
which i have tried running texhash and Options.Reconfigure dozens of times and nothing
works -- bookCP never shows up along with the rest of the things in in Layout
>Document .
It should be right there along side book and boo (AMS) and the rest, shouldn't it?
By the way, after putting it in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/ and running texhash,
it does show up in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R. But never in LyX.
The only other thing I could think of was the variables that were mentioned. trying
things like "echo $USERDIR" "echo $userdir" "$echo UserDir" (BTW, it's a very bad idea
to have mixed case env variables - shell variables should always be upper case for
sanity's sake) revealed nothing, so I thought maybe that was the problem, but after
setting them buy hand, I ran texhash again and Edit>Reconfigure.
Anyway, the short story is: I've been reading books and User's guides for 2 weeks now
off and on, and I'm not getting anywhere. Surely it's not that hard. Hey, it didn't
take me /this/ long to learn how to setup postfix ;-)
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong, or even better, what the correct thing to do
is?
Thanks a million in advance,
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Jonathan Wilson
System Administrator
Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
