Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
Hello,The place to find extra goodies is CTAN - look for a mirror near you (it's probably your nearest university) and browse through to the latex section. You'll find styles and a whole lot more. See
I'm new to lyx, and I'm trying produce an -already written- book with lyx.
I have a very simple question:
When I make a one-word text, and call it a title, I see that it's placed in the middle, above the text, which is what I want.
When I look at the dvi preview, it produces an entire page with the title, and the date, and it puts the text on the next page -I use "book" as document style-, which is not what I want.
The standard set of text types doesn't seem to have what I want.
Q:
Is there a collection of extra text types and documents styles, and how do I install it?
Help->Customisation
Is there a good howto about how to write my own types and document styles?
Help->Customisation
Good. It grows on you, too! You start by appreciating the easy way you can type things without having to worry about the details of formatting. Documents produced on ordinary word processors start to look unbearably ugly. Then you start getting interested in the details of formatting, read a book on LaTeX and start putting lots of unnecessary LaTeX commands into your documents just because you can. Finally you buy a copy of a book by Donald Knuth and are lost to the world ... ;-)b.t.w. I really like the lyx way of doing things, it's great.
Robin
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Compulsory physical exercise does no harm to the body,
but compulsory learning never sticks in the mind." - Plato
Robin Turner
IDMYO,
Bilkent University
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Turkey
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