Ramon Felciano wrote: > > I'm trying to use a dissertation format that places heading text in page > headers. For situations where the heading text is too long to place in a > one-line page header, it allows you to specify alternate text as follows: > > \section[alternate text]{main heading text} > > Is it possible to specify such alternate text using LyX's chapter and > section formats, or do I need to stop using those and revert to > manually-formatted TeX? have a look at http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fancy/header.phtml#shortheader Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/lyx/