On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Rod Pinna wrote: > > I had one little hiccup when converting a standard article to elsart. Lyx > > does not insert the required StartTitlePage before title and EndTitlePage > > before main text (start and end frontmatter), so these have to be entered > > manually. Took me a few minutes to figure this one out. > > I've got a vague feeling that this might be fixed if you use the template > with 1.2, but I'm not sure. >
I meant when you do a Layout -> Document -> Document-Tab -> Class -> "Elsevier article style" on a plain latex article class document, i.e. a class-conversion which does not use the template document. Starting from scratch using the template works fine. This sort of problem is not unique to elsart. Revtex4 has some problems too when you switch from plain-article to revtex4. God knows why, but after one conversion, I had to put the title after the abstract for latex to stop giving errors. > > I suppose if one needs to use the optional key/label fields with \author, > > \collab, \address, \thanks, \corauth the frontmatter might get a bit > > ugly with lots of ERT. Is there a way to incorporate these in the layout? > > I think it might be tricky because they're kind of new types of > > cross-references. > > Yup, this bit stumped me as well. I thik it can be done, but I don't know > enough of what layout can do. One day I might have the time to do > something with this. > I think the current layout is very usable. Much nicer than exporting latex, and then editing the final latex copy by hand (which is never final when you first think it is). I think a well documented template, detailing the quirks of the class, incl. features for which you have to use ERT, would be sufficient. Steve -- Steven Homolya School of Physics and Materials Engineering Monash University, VIC 3800 Australia Tel: +61 3 9905 3694 Fax: +61 3 9905 3637
