Do you mean you want a titlepage? Report class, and several other classes put author and title on their own page. The postscript output, viewed in eg. ghostview, will show two pages (logically) numbered one. As long as no pagenumber shows up on the printed output, this should be no problem.
Copy and past to and from LyX is notoriously fussy, and this looks like the state of affairs for the forseeable future. Best thing is to do File->Import->Ascii Text, or Insert->Insert File->... and then do your formatting. Also sprach Tomer Altman: > What is the best way to make a front page to a document in LyX? > Meaning, to have a part which holds it's own page, while the rest of the > document is on the next pages. If I just put it one after another, it > doesn't give it space (obviously) and if I do the front page in another > file, then I have page #1 twice, which isn't too good. > Another issue that frustates me is copy+pasting text into LyX. My > intention was to insert C code in (using LaTeX "verbatim" command) but > when I tried to simply copy the code from the editor (KDE embedded > editor "Advanced Editor"), the text had no spacing, which makes the code > unreadable. Any help about this will be appreciated. (maybe there's an > easier way to insert the \begin{verbatim} thru lyx which might not > "care" about spacing? Maybe a copy+paste help?) > Thanks.