Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
That makes sense I guess. But all I want to do is to learn to use LyX
instead of Ooffice for most of my writing. I'm not really planing on
becoming a LaTeX expert. Still I suppose I might use google to find an
online manual I could look at for clues now and then.
No need to become an expert. A manual will contain
the easy stuff too - feel free to skip the hard parts.
Often-used stuff, like page number, chapter number/name
and so on tends to be easy enough. If you don't
find a handy list anywhere, make your own as you collect tips. :-)
Now, if you want some specific thing in your header, such as
date, filename, or the page number in roman numerals - just ask.
Actually I wanted the list of possibles to see if it gave me any ideas.
Well - anything goes. Some things may be harder than
others, buit there are few limits on what you _can_ get somehow.
Anything you can refer to, anything that is automatically numbered
or named can be brought out in the headers if you wish.
That's why I suggest that you ask - if you miss something
your previous word processor could put in the header for you.
Speaking of which you just gave me one. At least I think you did <grin>.
When you say filename, do you mean the full pathname of the .lyx file
such as "/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/ToJim.lyx" or just "ToJim.lyx"???
Wait let me guess, there is probably a latex command form for both the
simple filename and the pathname, right?
Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file.
Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except
that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful.
The way lyx manages files means that the path only
is the path to the temporary directory lyx uses for
conversions and processing. It is done this way
because latex makes tons of little files while running -
it is nice not having to clean up all of them in a careful
way. The entire temporary directory is deleted when
you close lyx, which is easier to do.
Adding a filename reference to lyx might be useful - but it
can't happen until 1.6 as version 1.5 is in feature freeze
right now.
Helge Hafting
