So you don't need the book class even though the msuthesis class calls it?
Danny
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:41 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
