On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Marshall Feldman wrote:
1. I'm writing a conference paper. LyX has a few conference/proceedings templates, but none suit my needs. Several document classes could work for me, but they're not complete. For example, a conference paper should list the conference, location, etc., and most likely this information should have a distinct style. How should one handle this? By adding a style to the document class? (How?) By manually adjusting the appearance of text?
Depending on the length of the peper either the article or report classes would work. You can put the conference name and location in a footnote on the title page or make it part of the title. Take a look, too, at the KOMA-script versions. They're highly flexible and adaptable. Only if the conference wants to micro-manage the layout of presentation articles might you have a problem. Otherwise, you can get all the necessary and desired information in there by being creative.
2. I'd like to design a template for a working paper series. The cover page would have a few graphics, a title, author, date, institutional affiliation, and contact information. The first following right page would have a title, abstract, and keywords. The second even page would start the actual paper. It would have a title, abstract, and author, followed by the text itself. What's the best way to do this?
Take a look at the KOMA-script and memoir book classes.
3. How do the various templates and document classes know when to insert a page break? In other words, how do they control front and back matter? Can the user customize or override this?
You enter LaTeX commands such as \frontmatter and \backmatter. If you plan to learn and use LyX extensively I recommend that you get copies of the latest editions of The LaTeX Companion and The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Rich
