On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Bob,
>> >
>> > Thank you very much for your help. Sorry to bug everyone with these
>> > questions. I only have a few more weeks to finish my thesis and I am
>> > determined to use Lyx to get it done :). Not being a Lyx/Latex expert,
>> > the
>> > help I'm getting from this user group is invaluable. If I can get all
>> > these
>> > issues fixed, I am will turn over a "golden" Lyx template to the
>> > university
>> > so lots of other students can benefit.
>> >
>> > I have another TOC question. For some reason, the words 'Abstract',
>> > 'List
>> > of Tables' and 'List of Figures' are not in all-caps in the TOC. Is
>> > there a
>> > way to force them to be in caps? All the other first level titles are
>> > in
>> > caps as required. I looked at the Lyx TOC setup and it only lets me
>> > choose
>> > the depth being displayed not the formatting. Thank you again.
>> >
>> > Adrian
>>
>> Just as an aside, this is a bottom posting mail list :-}.
>>
>> I'm not sure if there is a way to 'force' these names to be in caps by
>> default, but there is a way to call them anything you like with
>> commands like:
>>
>> \renewcommand\contentsname{TABLE OF CONTENTS}
>> \renewcommand\listfigurename{LIST OF FIGURES}
>> \renewcommand\listtablename{LIST OF TABLES}
>> \renewcommand\abstractname{ABSTRACT}
>>
>> Although this puts the items in caps within the document and the toc.
>> Not sure if that's what you want. I'm also not sure what you're doing
>> to insert the lot, lof, and abstract into the toc in the first place,
>> which would play a role in all of this too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> /Bob
>
> I have no idea why the abstract, lot, lof are in the TOC. Our graduate
> school has all kinds of crazy formatting requirements and peculiarities :)!
> Everything as to be exactly matching to their specifications; otherwise,
> your thesis does not get accepted.
>
Yeah, I know all about trying to match universities theses formatting
requirements. I just finished my thesis last August :-}. It always
amazes me that all of these universities have these strict formatting
requirements and hundreds of students have created templates in one
way or another to follow the requirements, but most universities don't
provide students with templates. It just doesn't make any sense, if
they require it, they should provide templates. Instead thousands of
students fight and fight to format their theses. ???
Even though I experienced a fairly steep learning curve with LyX it
was still much much nicer to work with than M$ Word, which is what my
advisor wanted me to use. I said no :-}.
/Bob
