Using lyx for IEEE transactions

I use LyX write documents for submission etc. It is great because it imposes semantics onto your content, and worries about making the document display appropriately (i.e. divorcing content from display). It also utilizes bibtex to manage references. This is nice because as I build up my list of references for various papers I can access all the references by simply adding my common bibtex resource file. Also, lyx-1.4.1 is a significant improvement on previous versions, and is worthwhile installing (Unfortunately unavailable in ubuntu repositories, so i had to compile debs for the package myself -> get hold of me if you are interested). So besides the benefits of lyx, I have a few gripes (and solutions):

• Out the box lyx does not include support for IEEE transactions. As a computer scientist this is a bit annoying, but easily remedied:
  Download the LaTeX class from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/ (there is a zip file available).

  (as root)
  Unzip it to the directory /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/IEEEtran 
  run 'texhash'
  (as you)
  *Update* 
  edit /home/yourusername/.lyx/textclass.lst:
    change make sure you have this line:
      "IEEEtran" "IEEEtran" "article (IEEEtran)" "true"
    (it may be entered with "false" as default")
  
  open lyx and click 'tools -> Reconfigure' and restart lyx when done.
  

• Next gripe: Once you have the IEEEtran layout available you may, or may not notice, that when you compile the document, with your Biography environment completed it features an annoying "Place Photo Here" in your document. I haven't found an easy way to include a photo automatically, and usually I don't believe people should have to see my mug just for reading my document. I hack /usr/share/lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout by adding the following (after "Style Biography"):

  Style BiographyNoPhoto
          LaTeXType             Environment
          LaTeXName             biographynophoto
          Align                 Block
          AlignPossible         Block
          TextFont
            Size                Small
          EndFont
  End
  

  This makes "BiographyNoPhoto" appear in your choice of environments in lyx, with the same functionality as Biography.

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