Re: What's the simplest possible way to create a new Document Class?

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Thanks so much Christopher. I was indeed able to modify article to 
> helloworld. I hiccupped on the next step, where I renamed article.layout to 
> harticle.layout. My helloworld went away. There's something special about the 
> filename article.layout, but I couldn't find it:

The problem is that lyx assumes (if not told otherwise) that foo.layout uses 
foo.cls.
Since you don't have harticle.cls on your system, it doesn't display your new
class.
The solution is to use

\DeclareLaTeXClass[article]{hello world}