I'm a big fan of putting title pages together in Scribus. It allows you
to be anally particular about where things go, what fonts you want to
use, etc. I also find that it's easier to use for layout work than
OpenOffice. When you're done, you can export your masterpiece as a PDF
and then include it in your frontmatter.
For very finicky layouts (that only need to be done once), I much prefer
to use a dedicated layout program over ERT. The downside, is,
unfortunately that you won't get the automatic headers and footers
unless you add the appropriate macros in your document preamble:
\author{}
\title{}
...
On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> The way I do this type of thing is to construct the frontmatter, including
> the cover, in LyX using ERT and custom environments. That's a few hours of
> LaTeX ERT work to get it looking just how you want it to, but I think it's
> worth it.
>
> A second way you can do it is to use pdftk to tack the Word-sourced front
> pages onto the LyX sourced rest of the document, and of course set page
> numbering in both so everything matches up.
>
> SteveT
>
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 12:58:09 Sajjad wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It has to be merged as a single pdf file and front front pages are in the
> > Miicrosoft Office Word format.
> >
> > So after merging all the front and title pages to the main report , it
> > must be compiled as a single pdf file.
> >
> > Regards
> > Sajjad
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:50 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
> > > On 03/30/2010 11:53 AM, Sajjad wrote:
> > >> Hello forum,
> > >>
> > >> I have written the thesis in a single .lyx file.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Now to comply with the university standard i have to include front
> > >> page, the title page and then the main report that i have written.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Any hint how to do that from LyX interface ?
> > >
> > > What format do you have those pages in? Or is the question how to create
> > > them?
> > >
> > > One option is to create them in OpenOffice or something, as these often
> > > are supposed to have a very particular format. Then print them and put
> > > them on the front. If you have to adjust page numbers in the LyX file,
> > > that is fairly easy to do.
> > >
> > > rh
> >
>
