On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 05:43:58PM -0700, Andrew Diederich wrote: > Folks, > > I'm in the US Army and I'd like to write documents in LyX. This won't be > a big surprise to you, but the army is a bit particular about the > formatting of her documents. There's a whole AR (Army Regulation) on it, > http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r25_50.pdf. It's "Preparing and > Managing Correspondence", AR 25-20. > > Anyway, the downside is I'm no great shakes at LaTeX. Is there a howto on > taking an existing template and modifying it somewhere? I'd be interested > in making the template, but I'm looking at the great unknown to start > with.
Have a look at the memoir class which has many configuration options and a good manual. Currently, there is no memoir layout file for LyX, but it shouldn't be hard to create one.