Since I have been using (more like exploring so far) LyX for only a few weeks, almost surely some or all of my questions have been asked and answered before. For that I apologize. Also, sad to say, the amount of TeX I know at this point is nearly the null set, so an answer which involves TeX either must be detailed enough for me to act on it or must tell me where to go to find such details. Thanks to the list in advance for whatever help you can provide. FYI I'm running LyX 1.3.4 aqua on a Mac OS 10.3 (courtesy of Ronald Florence and Gerben Wierda's teTeX). Sorry about the number of questions.
(1) My version of LyX remembers only 3 or 4 recently opened files. Is there a way to configure LyX so it remembers a greater number of recently opened files? (2) After I choose the number of rows and columns for a table I wish to insert, how do I fix its dimensions (its width and height in inches, for example)? If I control-click on the inserted table, the table dialog comes up which allows me to choose the width of a given column. So clearly I can fix the dimensions of the table by doing this column by column, but there should be a more efficient way. (3) What is the best way to handle equations with multiple equal signs which you want to appear with the equal signs aligned underneath each other? (4) The layouts folder in my LyX package contains a great number of layouts. But most of these layouts (document classes) say "unavailable" in the document layout dialog. I've been told to go get the layouts at ctan, but the layouts folder already seems to contain more layouts than I could want. How do I make more of these document classes available to LyX? (5) In the article and AMS article document classes, the LyX quote and quotation environments place a long quotation in a indented block. What if I want these environments to set that block in a type size 1 point reduced from whatever the body type size is. How would I make such a change? And what if I wanted to call the new class "My Article Class," say, and keep the old class with its original name? (6) In the article and AMS article document classes, the subsection numbering refers to the section it's in and resets in each section (1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, ...). How would I change this so that the subsections number sequentially (1, 2, 3, ...) throughout the document, without an attached section number and without resetting in each section? (7) The TeX installation I'm using contains the European Computer Modern font family (ECM) and I'm told that my LyX document will print in ECM (and not CM) if I choose default in the document layout. Suppose I draw a figure in some drawing application, save it in eps format, and include that figure in my LyX document. If that figure has labels (not a caption, but labels) in text, then I would want the font used for those labels to match the font used in my printed document. Does this mean I should buy the European Modern font family (from Y & Y)? But then if this document is an article which I submit to a journal which typesets using LaTeX but with Times, say, as their font, aren't they going to ask me to send them the figures with the labels redone in Times? Thanks for whatever help the LyX pros can provide. Bruce Pourciau
