hello lyx-list, I've just subscribed having had a trawl through the wiki (but not found the answer to my problem), so a quick intro seems in order. I'm currently trying to write up and engineering thesis in lyx, having migrated to linux for all but a few apps in the last couple of years. Having not had any trainning pre-se, I'm into ugly scripting hacks and a big fan of mailing lists (the local lug in nottingham is *very* active and really helpful).
So far I seem to have got my various chapter documents interacting sensbily and a have been really impressed with the look of the documents (they're just laking text and that's my problem!). However, the more reading round I do and the closer to having to sort out final layout, the more I fear I'm going to have to start using ERT and the like, so I might be after some hint and tips to get going in the next couple of months... Anyway, the first of these problems is with inserting a date. I do the occasion print out and would like to include the current date when I do . I found some of the lyx-codes described in the wiki, and by adding 'date-insert' and formating as lyxCode I get the current date nicely in the page :-) However I then get a page with nothing but 'date-insert' after it! Have I gone about this the right way? If so, how do I get rid of the actual lyx-code text? I'm using Version 1.3.5 on madrake 10.1 community... Thanks in advance for any help/advice, Dave
