LyX ⇒ Confusion over adding .sty files

[ZomBeeBacon]

Hi,

I'm afraid I'm quite new to both Lyx and latex in general, but I'm keen to learn and I figured the best way would be to dive right in. So I decided to try and write my thesis in lyx and up to now it's been great. I ran into a problem regarding the use of style-files (.sty)

When I try to view my document I get an error that the subscript.sty file is missing. Fine, no problem. I download the subscript.sty file and I read in several posts that it's as easy as putting the file in the same directory as my lyx file (Master.lyx). I do this, and the problem seems to be solved. I can now view my document.

However, I like nicely organised things. I want to put all my styles into a separate folder and have lyx read them from there. Following some research I read this should be perfectly possible.

First I find out my user directory: Help -> About Lyx. It shows me the directory is ~/.lyx/
As I understand, I can put style files here and Lyx should pick them up, right?
I add the folder and file ~/.lyx/AddedStyles/subscript.sty
I tell Lyx where to look for the new file: Tools -> Reconfigure

The lyx document cannot be viewed, I get the error that the subscript.sty is missing. Am I missing a step? Or forgetting something?



What is strange to me is that there is a file called styFiles.lst in the ~/.lyx/ folder, which I assume is the file telling Lyx where to find all the style files. I can see that Lyx is adding my custom folder to this list [the document contains: ./AddedStyles/subscript.sty on line 1 after reconfiguring]. However the file doesn't seem to be picked up by Lyx.


Any help would be very much appreciated, I don't usually post as I find most problems have been solved before but this one has me at adrift.
I'm using lyx version 2.1.2 on Scientific Linux 6.5

Thanks,
ZB

[Johannes_B]

Hi and welcome,

a usual installation of TeX Live contains all packages that come with TeX Live, on most Linux distros you can achieve that installing texlive-full.

The thing is that not LyX needs to find the package (sty) files, but LaTeX needs to find them.

Btw: LyX is supposed to be a tool for experienced LaTeX users.