Allan, Thanks for your email.
I tried \AtBeginDocument{\usepackage{babel}} in the preferences dialogue, but my IEEE paper still wouldn't compile (LyX calls LaTeX but LaTeX just seems to hang on its 1st run and I have to kill it) Excuse my ignorance but what was your reasoning behind suggesting using \AtBeginDocument{\usepackage{babel}} instead of \usepackage{babel} cheers Nick On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 2:55:pm, Allan Rae wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Nick Burgan wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am writing a paper for the IEEE using IEEEtran_v15.cls as my Document > > Class. After trying lots of things to try and get IEEEtran to work and > > reading all of the emails on the list that I could find related to this, > > I believe that you can not use Babel when using the IEEEtran. Is this > > correct ? > > > > Now that I have removed the line \usepackage{babel} from Edit -> > > Preferences -> Lang Opts -> language, Package my paper compiles without > > any errors. > > > > My problem is that often I have several documents open within LyX. All of > > these except for the IEEE paper use babel. If I want to compile them I > > need to type the \usepackage{babel} line in again. I was wondering if > > there was something that I could put just in the preamble of my IEEE > > paper that would turn babel off, without having to turn it off globally > > in LyX. > > Try this (just a guess) in the preferences dialog instead: > > \AtBeginDocument{\usepackage{babel}} > > Allan. (ARRae) -- ____________________________________ Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367 ____________________________________