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CreatingLayouts

Tips and links related to creating your own LyX layout-files

This page contains tips, notes and links related to creating your own layout-files for LyX.

Contents

• Related links
• Why this page was created
• Quick'n dirty answer

Pages, sites and other resources related to creating layouts

• LyX documentation: Help→Customization (chapter 5)
• Links and examples in the Layouts group in this wiki.
• Steve Litt's "Quickstart tutorial" and "LyX, LaTeX and TeX" (both available from the tutorials-page) provides an excellent introduction to creating your own layout files
• A step by step example of how to create a NIH grant template from available LaTeX document classes can be found here

Background

This page answers the FAQ "How do I make LyX recognize a new LaTeX class?" It was created in response to a question in LyxUsersPost:13975

Quick'n dirty answer

First you have to install the latex class and bibtex bst so that it works with latex (put in place and run texhash).

[ RedHat 9.0 / Fedora Core 1,2,3 : latex class location is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex; make a directory inside this directory called acmsiggraph and place acmsiggraph.cls inside. The bibtex .bst location is /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/; make a directory inside this directory called acmsiggraph and insert .bst file. The .bib file location is /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib; make a directory inside this directory called acmsiggraph and insert .bib file. Now run "texhash" . This will reconfigure latex and make it available for lyx. ]

Using their BibTeX style should be very easy. After an Tools>Reconfigure from lyx, it should show up in the drop-down list of available bibtex styles and you can select it as usual.

For using their LaTeX-class, you'll have to write your own LyX-layout. (It shouldn't be that difficult...)

Find the basis class for your new class. Lets assume, the LaTeX class amcsiggraph.cls is a descendant of article.cls, then the lyx layout to use is article.layout. Save the following to a file acmsiggraph.layout in your layouts directory (~/.lyx/layouts/ on UNIX):

 
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this      
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[acmsiggraph]{ACM SigGraph}

# Read the definitions from article.layout
Input article.layout
 

ACM SigGraph is the text you will see in the Layout>Document>Document-Class drop-down list. (After Tools>Reconfigure and a restart of lyx.)

For a more detailed answer and example files, see the links above.

Layouts