On 12/02/11 18:23, Clive&Pauline_Libotte wrote:
> > On 07/02/11 16:42, Clive&Pauline_Libotte wrote:
>
>> >> Dear Lyxers,
>> >> I have spent hundreds of hours hand-crafting the front matter of a book,
>> >> but one area has me stumped. How do I access a method of customising
>> >> the Index title and it's body text. I have not found anything reliable
>> >> on the Web or in this list. Where is the documentation on this -- plenty
>> >> on the customising of the TOC, getting on with that. Thanks for your
>> >> knowledgeable help.
>> >>
>> >> Clive Libotte.
>> >>
>>
> > Replying to myself (I think, having just set up the list on my email)
> > Thanks to Marcelo and Sefano for their prompt replies. I did not need
> > the additional tex packages recommended, as I wanted only the titles and
> > page numbering in the Index, TOC, List of Figures and List of Tables to
> > match the graphics of the main text; the body text was all right. So my
> > heading Customising Index Title & Body Text is too expansive -- sorry.
> > Your replies sent me on new lines of research though, which were
> > successful. For the benefit of other newcomers to Lyx; the lines of code
> > that I used are as follows. Note, that I have the fancyhdr package
> > loaded with document class book, Lyx version 1.6.7. The front matter
> > page numbering style is set early and carries on though the Table of
> > Contents on to the end of the front matter. The Index is numbered the
> > same as the main text. You set the numbering styles with the package
> > fancyhdr.
> >
> > To change the Index title font to match the chapter titles, do the
> > following in ERT just before the embedded Index label:-
> >
> > \makeatletter
> > \let\ps@plain\ps@fancy
> > \makeatother
> > \renewcommand\indexname{\bfseries \sffamily \Huge Index}
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bfseries \sffamily \large Index}
> >
> > You can do the same with the TOC, List of Figures, List of Tables by
> > changing the "\indexname" to "\contentsname", \listfigurename" or
> > "\listtablename" as required. The last line of the code "\addcontents
> > ..." is to add the Index title to the TOC which is not done as default.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hope this help others.
> >
>
Replying to myself once more for the benefit of the newsgroup.
Upon proof reading the output, the last line in the above code
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\bfseries \sffamily \large Index} is not
correct, because the commands \bfseries \sffamily \large, cause an
unexpected result which turns up in the TOC. The entry "Index" in the
TOC does indeed appear, but in the serif font instead of the sanserif
font with the associated page number in the correct serif font (all the
page numbers in the TOC are in serif font, so that it matches). The
correct way to change the "Index" entry to sanserif (to match the other
chapter headings) in the TOC is like this.
load the tocloft package in the preamble \usepackage{tocloft}
insert the ERT code just before the "Table of Contents" label like this,
\renewcommand{cftchapfont}{\bfseries \sffamily \normalsize}. Now the
"Index" entry is sanserif matching the other chapter entries.
So I did end up needing an additional package to do this job after all;
can't always keep things simple!
-- Clive Libotte, IEng. MInstMC.
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