Hi everybody!
I'm currently writing my diploma thesis with KLyX. I've had no previous
experience with it or LaTeX so far.
There are a few minor things I don't like so much, especially I'd like more
control about where figure floats are placed in the text. I have set the
placement rules to "htbp" in the Layout -> Document dialog already but the
result doesn't always satisfy me. Well, I'm still used to WYSIWYG too much I
guess.
But in general I'm really happy with that beast. I haven't lost any text so
far through it (something you usually can't say about "industry standard"
word processors), only a few lines trough a freeze of my SuSE 6.0 system when
I switched to a virtual console.
Both LyX and KLyX crashed a few times when I was simply typing text, but they
always saved emergency files and recovered. I can't give much more info about
these crashes, nothing special was printed or so, it was a SEGV, that's all I
can say. Haven't seen any of these for a few weeks.
Now for my real "problems". I'm not sure if they're rather LaTeX problems but
I know very little about it.
The first one is that I my document ends with a few chapters of appendixes (I
selected "Start of Appendix" before them so everything is OK with them)
followed by a table of figures and a bibliography. Both of them don't show up
in the table of contents but I really need them to be in there!
The second one has to do with page layout. I chose the fancy layout in
Layout -> Document. As you probably know, it puts the chapter heading on the
left and the section heading on the right of the top of each page. If these
headings are long, they run into each other and thus become unreadable.
This has disappointed me quite a bit and led to some jokes from colleagues in
the department ("Are you sure you're using the right tool?"). How can I
correct this? I think the best way would be if the section heading on the
right was simply truncated to fit.
I have two more glitches I'd like to mention.
The first one is that two spaces are always removed. I frequently want to
replace a whole word, so I delete it (by hitting backspace several times) to
type in the new one. But as soon as the last letter is deleted, two spaces
meet, one is removed and the cursor is put at the end of the left word. I'd
prefer if the two spaces remained there until the cursor is moved away so I
could insert my new word without further steps.
Second, program code typeset in LyX-Code isn't split very intelligently if it
hits the end of page which also disappointed me quite a bit. In my case,
about three lines were put on the first page, with half of the page empty. On
the next page came a few more lines, an empty line (why wasn't the page break
put here?) followed by a lot of lines which ran over the end of the page - it
seems because no empty line was found where the page break could be put.
Why won't the page break be put whereever it is necessary? No problem in
program code IMHO.
I helped myself by putting a protected space in Standard environment at the
place where I want the page break to occur, which is a very ugly workaround.
I hope somebody can help me with my two problems because my thesis is due
next Monday (18th).
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So long, Markus
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my homepage at http://www.gp.fht-esslingen.de/students/emw4maba
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