You don't really need lots of ERT's for simple stuff. I as well use "notitlepage" for the document, and make everything myself via large fonts, vfills and hfills from within lyx. It comes out fine.
Miki "Steve Litt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Saturday 30 June 2007 20:26, Typhoon wrote: >> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:27:46 -0400 >> >> "Nathan Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On the title page of my thesis I want to have title, author, and then >> > some other stuff (for example the names of my committee members). >> > However, if I put anything in standard format after the title and >> > author, it puts it on the next page. How do I override this? >> >> I had the same problem when publishing a cookbook written by my wife. I >> just "hand-crafted" the pages, using standard paragraph for the title, >> but then centering and making the font large. Lots of hfills and so on >> in the first four pages of frontmatter. >> >> HTH, >> Alan > > Yes, yes, YES! I've said it 1000 times -- the front matter is a one-off > section that does not need consistency enforced by styles. The front > matter > is more like a poster than like a book, and hence I always create the > whole > thing with fine-tuned ERT. > > I've used fine tuning in front matters to do things the document class > authors > never dreamed of. > > WYSIWYM is great in mainmatter and backmatter, but IMHO the front matter > is > best done as WYDIHC (what you do is hard code). > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/ >
