On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 02/01/2011 08:58 PM, Stig Rognes wrote:
>
>> Hello LyX-users,
>>
>> I'm using book class (Memoir) and would like to have the frontmatter
>> (abstract, acknowledgments (unnumbered chapter), nom, lof, lot, and toc
>> itself) appear in emphasized/italics font on the Contents page. I don't
>> want the actual chapter titles appear in italics, just in the ToC.
>>
>> I've tried the following hack, which kinda works, first removing LyX's own
>> List of tables, then inserting two TeX-boxes, first a non-contents-listed
>> lot, and then one adding it manually right after:
>>
>> \listoftables*
>> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\emph{List of tables}}
>>
>> This isn't good enough though, as it messes up the pdf-bookmarks page
>> numbering and doesn't work with LyX's own List of Tables, Nomenclature, or
>> whatever list. And I haven't found any hack for getting the Contents-insert
>> itself in the ToC appear in italics/emphasis.
>>
>> Any ideas would be highly appreciated!
>>
>> Well, it's a wild guess, but what if you temporarily redefine
> \addcontentsline at the start of the frontmatter and then restore it at the
> end? E.g.:
>
> \let\oldaddcl=\addcontentsline
> \renewcommand\addcontentsline[3]{\oldaddcl{#1}{#2}{\emph{#3}}
> ...
> \let\addcontentsline=\oldaddcl
>
> Something like that ought to have the right effect.
>
> rh
>
> Stig
>>
>
>
Thanks Richard, but either I misunderstood your instructions or else it
didn't work. I put
\let\oldaddcl=\addcontentsline
\renewcommand\addcontentsline[3]{\oldaddcl{#1}{#2}{\emph{#3}}
in an ERT at the start of the document, and
\let\addcontentsline=\oldaddcl
in an ERT after the Contents, before the first chapter. But in the pdf
everything went blank, and later: Cannot view file: File does not exist.
DVI generates empty output.
Stig
