Hi all, It seems to me that from the dawn of time (2001 for me), getting LyX to work with a layout file anywhere but /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts was extremely difficult, with no reproducible procedure. You'd create a symlink from where the file really existed to /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts, and then after about an hour of fiddling around, the document class would somehow magically show up in your list.
It got even worse in 1.5.x when they attempted to recognize layout files in the current directory. You could have duplicate copies with all sorts of environment-munching disasters, or none, or who knows what. Yesterday I got a layout file to work the first time. What a refreshing difference. Here's what I did: cd /home/myuid/mybook Decided my document class should be called infacebook Created a small layout file as infacebook_layout.src ln -s /home/myuid/mybook/infacebook_layout.src /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts/infacebook.layout lyx/reconfigure lyx mybook.lyx switch document class to infacebook, which is now listed. The key here is that the actual physical file (as opposed to the symlink name) does not end with .layout, so LyX doesn't try to use it as a layout file. LyX relies only on the symlink copy in /home/myuid/.lyx/layouts. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
