Dear jonathan,
Certainly the instructions for installing new classes and styles aren't
terribly clear. This is what I did to install the layout
"acmtrans2e" described in latex by acmtrans2e.cls and acmtrans.bst I hope
that it will be helpfull.
(Note: acmtrans2e has the same enviroments than article)
1) mkdir /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/acmtrans2e
2) cp acmtrans2e.cls /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/acmtrans2e/.
3) mkdir /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/acmtrans2e
4) cp acmtrans.bst /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/acmtrans2e/
5) cp /usr/share/lyx/layouts/article.layout
$HOME/.lyx/layouts/acmtrans2e.layout
6) edit $HOME/.lyx/layouts/acmtrans2e.layout
7) replace second line by # \DeclareLaTeXClass{acmtrans2e}
7.5) texhash
8) start lyx
9) edit->reconfigure
10) exit lyx
11) start lyx again
(NOTE: you may try with book.layout instead article.layout)
hope this helps
Roberto
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> 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the book is somewhat out of date, for example it talks about using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,
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Jonathan Wilson
> System Administrator
>
> Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
> Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com
>
