The only classes you'll see in LyX itself are ones for which there are layouts. To use the ACM class from LyX, you'll have to find or produce a layout for it. Someone may have one, but one doesn't ship with LyX.
Steve Litt has a lot of experience with layouts. It's not terribly, terribly hard to do, but it takes some work. Richard B. Bogart wrote: > Hi Richard, > > I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the > document classes I see in lyx. > > From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for: > > acmconf.cls > acmtrans2e.cls > apa.cls > > The document classes I can choose from document settings are: > > Article (APA) > > But no ACM. > > I don't see a good correlation between the list of "document class" and > the text info list of classes. > > Any further suggestions? > > Thanks, > B. Bogart > > > Richard Heck wrote: > >> LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to >> make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX >> can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools > >> Reconfigure). You can use Tools > Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is >> there. >> >> I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard >> to create one if not. >> >> As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more >> general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use >> apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty, >> which you'd also want). Just choose "default" for your citation style >> and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert > List >> >>> Bibliography), choose "apacite" as your style. Of course, you'll need >>> >> to make sure that's installed, too. >> >> Richard >> >> B. Bogart wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA >>> formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM >>> document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see >>> those templates. >>> >>> How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations >>> and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only >>> give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib) >>> >>> FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex >>> >>> Thanks all. >>> >>> B. Bogart >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- ================================================================== Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ ================================================================== Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
