On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:03:26 -0500
rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:58:42 am Piotr Sulecki wrote:
> >
> >> rh,
> >>
> >> 2009/2/10 rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com>:
> >>
> >>>> I'm trying to write a novel in LyX, and I run into some problems
> >>>> with sectioning.
> >>>>
> >>>> The structure I have in mind is, the book would be divided into
> >>>> 50+ parts, each part having ten or so short chapters (about
> >>>> 50-60 pages per part). [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> The problem is, while I do want the book parts to be titled, I
> >>>> don't want the chapters titled, just numbered.
> >>>> [...]
> >>>> The real problem is, how do I make the chapters untitled?
> >>>>
> >>>> I know I can put a single hard space (Ctl-Space) as the
> >>>> chapter's title, but
> >>>> it's a waste of space on a chapter title page, and it won't look
> >>>> right in the TOC.
> >>>>
> >>> Put a blank ERT where the chapter title goes.
> >>>
> >> By a blank ERT you mean an '{}' ERT, right?
> >>
> >> Would this make the chapter start page to consume less vertical
> >> space?
> >>
> >> Besides, it's not really an answer, my original question included
> >> the
> > following:
> >
> >>>> Is there any way to do this without using ERT on every single
> >>>> chapter heading?
> >>>>
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you can redefine the chapter environment so that
> > before invoking the text, you set #1 or whatever the argument's
> > called to an empty string. Then you can just use any string in the
> > chapter environment, and it won't show up in the ps/pdf environment.
> >
> >
> Yes, that would be possible. But still kind of messy.
>
> > You can't use an environment on blank spaces (unless they're
> > nonbreaking blanks) because LyX doesn't work that way.
> >
> >
> You can if you use the KeepEmpty layout tag. Then you can have empty
> paragraphs. Still not ideal.
>
> rh
I'm not sure, but the section on "Changing the chapter headings" here
might be what you are looking for:
http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/thesis/thesis.html
Alan
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