Re: Converting sty to layout

2010-07-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/02/2010 04:54 AM, Andy S Feng wrote: Hi Richard, I copied the layout and ran lyx and it still won't compile. I have no trouble with the ordinary "article" layout or any of the other existing layouts. I've attached a screen capture of the compile error Can you (a) export this file to

Re: Converting sty to layout

2010-07-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/01/2010 03:46 PM, Andy S Feng wrote: Hi Vincent and Richard, now i am getting a different problem, I'm new to lyx 1.6.6.1 so i must be doing something erroneous. Let me detail my steps 1. Make copy of article.layout renamed as article-aer.layout 2. Changed - \DeclareLaTeXClass{article} To

RE: Converting sty to layout

2010-07-01 Thread Andy S Feng
-Original Message- From: Richard Heck [mailto:rgh...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, 1 July, 2010 6:05 PM To: Vincent van Ravesteijn Cc: Andy S Feng; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Converting sty to layout On 07/01/2010 01:01 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> 2) But once i selec

Re: Converting sty to layout

2010-07-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/01/2010 01:01 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: 2) But once i select it and start typing, it reverts to the plain “article” layout which is the incorrect layout. Can you explain what you do here exactly ? Is it reverted without any message ? Does it get reverted if you press "Apply

Re: Converting sty to layout

2010-07-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
> 2)  But once i select it and start typing, it reverts to the plain > “article” layout which is the incorrect layout. > Can you explain what you do here exactly ? Is it reverted without any message ? Does it get reverted if you press "Apply" ? Is it reverted after "OK" and opening the docume

Converting sty to layout

2010-07-01 Thread Andy S Feng
Hi all, I would like to know how to convert a sty file to a layout file. I have read the help\customization pages and followed the steps but it doesn't seem to work. My situation 1) Downloaded miktex along with lyx 2) Installed "vertex" latex package with miktex which includes