Hi LyXers, when you put only the title stuff into a seperate file, \maketitle is not appended to the tex file. One has to put one line with a hard space at the end of the file to cause LyX to write the line \maketitle. Version: LyX-1.0.0 Have fun, Fred Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thp.Uni-Duisburg.DE/ "Der Koerper der algebraischen Zahlen ist kein algebraischer Zahlkoerper" (E. Landau, Zahlentheorie (1927), Satz 718)