Good morning, I am quite new to Lyx and I have a problem that I think, it should be quite common. I am writting a paper for a conference and obviously it must be written using their specific format. The conference provide authors with a their_class.cls LaTex class file, a their_bib.bib, bibtex bibliography reference format, a sample sample.tex file and a sample .pdf file. They also provide a MS Word document template.
I have tried to import the sample.tex to Lyx (File->Import->LaTex (plain)), but I get the message: An error occurred whilst running tex2lyx -f "sample.tex" "sample.lyx". I have also tried to make the LaTex class provided by the conference team available from Lyx. I have tried this in two ways: first, I have copied the .cls file to (...\LyX15\Resources\tex). Then I have opened Lyx again and used the reconfigure function (tools->Reconfigure). But when I create a new document, the new class doesn't appear in the list of available classes. Second, I have copied the .cls file to the base class folder of my MikTex installation (...\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base), keeping the file copied in the previous step. I have used the reescan feature for LaTex classes (tools->Tex Information->Rescan), but the new class is missing. Could you give me any help or directions about how to import a Tex "document template" to Lyx? Thank you very much and I look forward to hear from you soon. P.D.: O.S. Windows XP SP2 Lyx 1.5.4 MikTex 2.7
