Am 28.02.2012 21:03, schrieb Pascal Fischer:
Of course I've meant to change the orientation for all headlines of a certain level. Not only for single ones.
But this is also possible. You can decide if the section, part or chapter title will appear.
PS: Sorry, if it seemed I was flooding the list. But yes, I've read the introduction, the tutorial and the user-guide. But I was so excited of the software, that I wanted to share some ideas to discuss, that maybe could make LyX even better.
I have to excuse. I didn't want to interrupt your enthusiasm. It only seemed to me that you are new to LyX and expect it to work like a word processor like Word.
Esp. for beginners. Of course I posted some things (like cursor-width) that are possible already and I didn't knew. I'm sorry for that.
Not problem. For a list what you can set in the LyX preferences and/or document settings, see the Appendices of the UserGuide.
But I still think, that many of the other ideas are worth thinking about it. Because standard-settings like the orientation of headlines (or the position of page-numbers, see other thread) are so essential and commonly needed for many users, that they should be possible in the document-settings-GUI without writing LaTeX in preambles, modifying modules, and so on. For sophisticated things that's okay, but not for basics that many user need to do.
That you cannot easily change the position of e.g. the page number is by design. These things are usually done by the document class. So for a book they will be at the outer margins, for articles in the middle. So normally you don't need to take care of such things, just choose a nice document class (I recommend KOMA-script or memoir) and it will look fine in the output. For the header/footers, the module is our UI. It can not be done in the document settings because this would interfere with the document class settings. For example KOMA-script has its own support for headers/footers.
However, the most important thing you should do is to concentrate on writing your text. Try not to look frequently how it will look in the output. Customize the output appearance when your text is finished. You then know more about LyX and what customizations are really necessary for you.
regards Uwe
