Greetings. I'm a new lyx user, and have just finished the very helpful tutorial at http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm.
I'm writing a course, and am trying to duplicate the course layout of microsoft technical courses (it's a unix related course so naturally I'm refusing to use microsoft authoring products). The course needs the following formatting: shaded boxes (a la fancybox package) graphics in shaded boxes (any graphics format that will work) horizontal lines ( ERT \rule ) My questions are: Should I look at creating a LaTeX document class for this, or can these needs be met within lyx layout and using ERT ? Also, is there a way of having a macro to stuff in repetitive ERT as needed? Thanks in advance, and forgive me if these questions are overly dumb.