Hello everyone!
I am investigating LyX as a possible replacement to my former desktop
publishing software (die, Microsoft, die!) (ahem) It has many nifty
features that I like, besides the principle of WYSIWYM is terribly
appealing. I have never used LaTeX, but with LyX you don't have to
know it, right?
Unfortunately, my publication (an amateur fiction magazine) is not a
technical journal or a thesis or a tretise, it's a bit more colourful
and less formal than that -- which means for certain things, I have had
to do battle with LyX instead of working with it.
For example, instead of having numbered chapters in boring font, my
'zine uses a fancy graphic for the title of each story. Which means I
cannot take advantage of one of the most attractive features of LyX, the
automatic table of contents generation. Now, after RTMing, I think I
have found a way around this -- insert the EPS graphic in a Chapter*
section, insert a Label, and then build the table of contents mostly by
hand, but insert a Pageref at the spot where the page number should be.
Is there an easier way of doing this?
And is there a way of forcing a Table to be the width of a page, or of
columns to be a certain width? I'm using a Table for my Table of
Contents, with columns for the Title, Author and genre of the story, and
a last column for the page-number. I'd like for the page-number to be
right against the right side of the page, but at the moment the table
is too narrow.
There are a few other things I'm not certain if I can do in LyX. I have
read the fancyhdr documentation, so I know how to put the page-numbers
where I want to -- but is there a way I can put a graphic around the
page-number? (My 'zine originally put the page numbers inside a little
hexagon) Likewise, is there a way of putting writing inside a graphic
in the main body of the text? (For example, a graphic of a fancy
border, with a poem inside of it)
Another question I have is, is there a way of having a mixture of
two-column and one-column layout? The bulk of the 'zine needs to be
two-column, but the table of contents and the editorial need to be
one-column. And the poetry needs to be one-column too.
advTHANKSance
Kathryn Andersen
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