rpm tells me that I currently have 216 texlive* rpms on my computer, and yum says that there are 688 texlive* rpms available so there are apparently another 472 texlive rpms that I don’t actually have installed. Most notably it lacks paragraph environments for standard front matter and end matter sections. The default Book class is fairly minimal in terms of features. One suggestion that I came across was to simply install all of the available texlive rpms and that will install all of the missing files. There are several document classes available for LyX that are suitable for typesetting a book, including the default Book class, the KOMA-script Book class (scrbook), and the Memoir class. Some google searching has led to some fairly contradictory information about how this all works. It would be nice to somehow enable all of these templates and document classes so I could play around with them a bit. Tested with Lyx 2.0 and MikTeX 2.8 under Windows 7. That’s it When you start a new document in Lyx, your new class should appear within the drop-down box for Document Class in the Document Settings window ( Document > Settings ). It appears that lyx-common installs all kinds of templates but not the cls files that are needed to actually use them. Restart the Lyx program when it prompts you to do so. There are all kinds of document classes listed but about 75% of them are grayed out and unselectable. Same thing if I just use “File – New” and then look at Document – Settings – Document Class”. The document class cannot be compiled until the following prerequisites are installed: XXX.cls” (where XXX is usually a name related somehow to the name of the template). When I select one of these templates, some of them work but some of them say something like: “The selected document class requires external files that are not available. When I use “File – New from Template” I get a large list of files in the /usr/share/lyx/templates/ directory, all of which seem to have come from the lyx-common rpm. I have a question about the template and class files. I wrote a short paper using Lyx and the “Article (Standard Class)” last night, and after finishing that I started playing around with Lyx in an effort to learn more about it since I really believe that I’m drastically under-utilizing an extremely powerful program. I’m enough of a novice with it that I’ve never used anything other than the “Article (Standard Class)” document class. I’m not kind of an expert using Lyx, but I occasionally do some “structured writing” and on those occasions I’ve really enjoyed using Lyx the workflow and the output just can’t be beat.
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