Apply for LyX Template Design for MDPI Publishing Ltd.

[Enrico Forestieri]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 10:12:22AM -0500, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 2/19/21 6:15 AM, Latex wrote:
> > Dear Enrico,
> > 
> > Thank you very much!
> > 
> > We have tested again, Everything is good now.
> > 
> > But we have a query about template maintain or update.
> > If we have to update template including cls and template.lyx (such as, in template.lyx, Original title "This is the Capitalized Title of the Paper", we hope keep it as our latex template, changing it to be "Title").

Of course you are free to do that and add a LyX note suggesting to
capitalize the title.

> Templates are just ordinary LyX files. So you can open the template in LyX 
> and modify it as you would any LyX file. (They are also just text files and
> can be edited as such, though it is easier to make mistakes then.) The
> layout file is a text file and can be modified using any text editor.
> 
> 
> > How can we do? Or if in emergency, who can we contact to help update template.lyx, mdpi.layout, mdpi.cls?
> 
> It will always be fine to post here.
> 
> 
> > In the following time, we will launch lyx mdpi template on our home page. We need to provide a brief instruction for LyX, do you have any suggestion about this instruction?
> 
> If you want to provide a download link for LyX, then use
> https://www.lyx.org/Download. As for the layout and template, something like
> this should do:
> 
> Put the mdpi.layout file into the layouts/ subdirectory of your LyX user
> directory (whose location can be found in the About LyX dialog). The
> template should be put into the templates/ subdirectory.

Note that this is not necessary as the template uses the local layout
file found in the "Definitions" subdirectory. People can directly edit
the template in place. I think this is the most user friendly way and
mimics the way the latex template has to be used. Users must simply be
advised of saving the .lyx file in the same directory containing the
"Definitions" subdirectory.


> 
> Riki
> 
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Enrico Forestieri" <forenr at lyx.org>
> > To: "Latex" <latex at mdpi.com>
> > Cc: "rikiheck" <rikiheck at lyx.org>, "lyx-devel" <lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org>, "xiu li" <xiu.li at mdpi.com>, "daum" <daum at mdpi.com>, "jie zhang" <jie.zhang at mdpi.com>, "howland wu" <howland.wu at mdpi.com>, "yi huang" <yi.huang at mdpi.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 1:05:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: Apply for LyX Template Design for MDPI Publishing Ltd.
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:11:04AM +0100, Latex wrote:
> > > Dear Enrico,
> > > 
> > > Thank you very much again!
> > You're welcome!
> > 
> > > We ran the lyx template and found there was a compile bug warning.
> > > Please see the attached picture.
> > > 
> > > But if we run our latex template firstly, lyx template can be compiled
> > > normally. Why is that? I saw it can't identify .eps picture directly,
> > > right? Or what's wrong with our operation for lyx?
> > Sorry, it was an oversight on my part. I first ran pdflatex on the latex
> > template and thus was not aware of the problem. When a postscript file
> > is included, pdflatex launches epstopdf to convert it. So it executes
> > the command "epstopdf ----outfile=Definitions/logo-orcid-eps-converted-to.pdf
> > Definitions/logo-orcid.eps" and then includes the converted graphics.
> > 
> > However, LyX typesets the document by making a copy of all required
> > files to a temporary directory, so that the document directory is not
> > polluted. Of course, LyX can only copy the files it is aware of, i.e.,
> > the ones that are inserted by using the GUI. The files included by the
> > class cannot be copied because they are unknown. Anyway, LyX accounts
> > for that by including the document directory to the TEXINPUTS
> > environment variable used by TeX. In this way, TeX can find all required
> > files.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, epstopdf is an external program that does not follow the
> > same rules as TeX for finding the required files and thus it fails.
> > The simplest way for dealing with this is not specifying the extension
> > of the graphics to be included and provide all formats that can be
> > included by a given TeX backend. For example, if a latex document
> > contains \includegraphics{foo} and the files foo.eps and foo.pdf are
> > provided, then the dvi backend will use foo.eps and the pdf backend will
> > use foo.pdf, without the need of any conversion.
> > 
> > So, what I have done is removing all .eps extensions from mdpi.cls and
> > providing the necessary .pdf formats. In the attached archive you can
> > find only the files that I modified or added. Other than the .pdf files
> > and the modified mdpi.cls file, you can also find a new .layout file
> > with the correction of a small glitch and new template.lyx where I
> > simply added instructions on how to obtain the various \citeXXX variants
> > for citations. I am also attaching a diff showing what has changed.
> > 
> > > And another question is about the argument in our latex template.
> > > \documentclass[journal,article,submit,moreauthors,pdftex]{Definitions/mdpi}
> > > 
> > > In the command, all arguments in square brackets can be changed. Such
> > > as "submit“ can be changed to "accept", "journal" can be changed to a
> > > designated journal name, others are same.
> > > When the arguments has been changed, they can produce a different
> > > format pdf file. If we need to change them, how to modify lyx
> > > template? or .layout file?
> > The class options can be found in
> > Document → Settings → Document Class → Custom
> > and can be easily changed there. Essentially, here you have all the
> > arguments that go in the square brackets of \documentclass.
> > 
> > Sorry for the inconvenience
> > 
> 

-- 
Enrico