UBC traditional (not manuscript-based) thesis/dissertation in LyX

I wrote my UBC dissertation in a manuscript-based LaTeX form but I have put together the following for LyX, so that people don't have to suffer through LaTeX if they don't know it:

Jan 2010:

Download and unzip my ubcthesislyx.zip. In the resulting folder you can, if you wish, update the ubcthesis.cls and genthesis.cls and the other files (linked from the UBC grad studies page). In any case, you can now just launch ubcsamplelyx.lyx in LyX and bingo! You can see the resulting sample PDF.

The trick here is that most of the extra defined stuff for ubcthesis is not dealt with in the .layout file, and therefore by LyX. Instead, most of these definitions come in the LaTeX preamble and are kept for simplicity in the LyX preamble. So visit Document-Settings-Preamble within LyX to change all the front matter settings.

Let me know if you make use of it (or make improvements), please.

(I have posted this at Wordpress).

C P Barrington-Leigh / U.B.C. Economics / January 2009