On 11/15/2011 07:37 AM, Janek Warchoł wrote: > Hi, > > i'm new to LyX (i have a bit of experience with LaTeX though) - i'd > like to help my friend to migrate her work from Word (bleh) to LaTeX > world, and i thought that LyX might be a good way. > I wanted to check if LyX suits us by compiling some LyX samples and > modifying them, so i opened some LyX templates (File -> New from > Template). To my great disappointment, i don't have any idea what the > names of most of them mean (what is ijmpc, for example?). Moreover, > in most cases LyX says "The selected document class requires external > files that are not available". I've only succeeded with "letter" > (which is quite straightforward) and "thesis" (partly). > Am i missing something big? Is there any simple article template? > Would it be good to suggest changing templates' names to something > more intuitive? > The templates correspond, mostly, to certain document classes. So elsarticle.lyx is a template for documents based upon the elsarticle.cls class, which is used by some Elsevier journals. The idea of having more descriptive names isn't bad, but then they'd presumably be in English, which isn't good for everyone. The current naming scheme is at least principled.
There isn't an article template, though perhaps there should be, as it would give basic guidance to newcomers. That said, the Tutorial is supposed to serve this kind of purpose, and most people have found, I think, that it does so pretty well. So I'd suggest starting there. Richard
