Steve Litt wrote:
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:00, you wrote:
But I've done a little experimenting, and here's one way this can
happen. First, you have to be using a "local" layout file, that is, a
layout file that is not in your LyX user directory but instead in the
directory with the source file.
I'm using a layout file in the source file directory. However, there's a
symlink to a the same name in /home/slitt/.lyx/layouts.
OK, then that is definitely related. LyX won't see the one in
.lyx/layouts if there is one in the document directory with the same
name. At least, there are circumstances under which it won't use it.
What happens, I think, is that
One more thing that might provide a hint. At least some of the times I
observed this automatic switching away from my custom document class, when I
scanned the list of available document classes to "put it back", my custom
document class was listed twice in the document class. This document class
switching is intermittent, and while I can't say for sure a correspondence
between it appearing twice and it evaporating, I cannot remember a time it
disappeared when it was not listed twice, and I cannot remember a time when
it did not disappear when it was listed twice.
This is again a consequence of using the local layout. It's listed twice
because one of them is the local layout and one of them is the system
version. See my post to the devel list for ideas about who this could
have caused the problem.
rh
