Danny Parker wrote:
Thanks again. I got mixed results but ultimately successful. I tried
making the changes you suggested, reconfigured, restarted and I got the same
error. I then downloaded the file you included and it worked. When I
opened your file in notepad to see what was different I noticed that yours
showed the formatting characters. For example where there should be line
returns there were boxes and the next word didn't start on the next line. I
wonder if notepad was putting control characters in that were causing the
error.
I'd also like to understand why that fixed my problem. From my
understanding the arguments in the [ ] are the necessary classes and the { }
is what is displayed in LyX. Inside my msuthesis.cls there is a line
\LoadClass[letterpaper,12pt,oneside,onecolumn,openany,final,titlepage]{book}
so I thought it was derived from the book class and thus needed the
[msuthesis,book]. This is almost exactly the case in 5.2.4. Did I
misunderstand the help file? Thanks again for all your help. It's much
appreciated.
In the DeclareLaTeXClass line, the optional argument, in [], specifies
what class file to use. It's optional because LyX will otherwise assume
that the class name is the same as the filename---with the extensions
changed, of course.
rh
