On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} M-L wrote: >--} > Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. >--} > >--} > Someone might know if this is doable? >--} > >--} > If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, > it --} > drives the text below the physical page. >--} > >--} > If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same > of --} > course. >--} > >--} > Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: >--} > >--} > * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the > footer --} > >--} > * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and > the last --} > line of text? >--} >--} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying >--} a taller bottom margin. >--} Document Settings->Page Margins. >--} Uncheck "default margins" and experiment with the bottom margin >--} settings. A smaller "foot skip" will also help, but the footer will then >--} be closer to the bottom of the text. >--} >--} Helge Hafting >--}
Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a "\" in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the <postscript> in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *********************************************** Meditation is not an escape from life . . . but preparation for really being in life. -----THICH NHAT HANH *********************************************** Debian, just the best way to create magic _______________________________________________
