Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> 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?
yes and no ;-) this depends to your text
> 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?
yes,
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/LaTeX/chapterPic.html
and you have a table of contents as usual
> 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.
this is possible, but not without some latex stuff.
> 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)
no problem :-)
\hexagon from package wasysym and page
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)
also possible, the graphic is like a background image
> 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.
package multicol
a lot special stuff, you need! this is more than a
little bit of special latex commands but its always
possible.
Herbert
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http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
