First off, I'm no expert in Lyx or latex. However, I have recently been trying to achieve a similar effect, in my case trying to make sure that the preface (which I have after the TOC) has roman page numbers in the footer rather than Arabic. After a bit of trawling usenet I found out to use the \frontmatter command before my preface, and \mainmatter before the first 'real' chapter. These clear and then reset a flag (@mainmatter) in the book.cls file which controls the behaviour of the chapter headers, page numbers etc. The preface chapter can then, surprisingly, be set as a numbered chapter (which means it appears in the TOC) but because of the different way the chapter header commands react to the setting of the @mainmatter flag it doesn't get given a chapter number.
Don't know if this will help, but I found it very useful. Does lyx have some control which fronts these two commands? If so, I haven't found it. Cheers guy -----Original Message----- From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 February 2004 02:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "Preface" on header The Preface for my book is before the table of contents. It is 3 pages long. The headers on pages 2 and 3 are blank, I presume because the Preface is an unnumbered chapter. How do I place the chapter name, "Preface", in the header? TIA, Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) <http://www.appl-ecosys.com>
