These files are for writing a paper for the DesignCon conference using LaTeX or LyX. The complete CTAN file set can be found at: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/designcon This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of the license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/06/01 or later. It includes: designcon.cls - LaTeX class file based on article designcon.layout - LyX layout file that goes with designcon.cls DesignCon.tex - A skeleton starting document for LaTeX DesignCon.lyx - A skeleton starting document for LyX DesignCon.pdf - the PDF output of either document Make a folder called "MyPaper" and put all of these files in it. Rename one of the skeleton application files to MyPaper.tex or .lyx depending on which you are using and begin editing these documents to produce your paper. The paper must be typeset in XeLaTeX since DesignCon uses some specific fonts that cannot be found elsewhere. Have fun writing in LaTeX! Pete Pupalaikis pete_pope at hotmail.com http://mysite.verizon.net/petepope/id6.html