Angus, Sorry about the delay. Thank you for your very helpful response to my long list of newbie LyX questions.
Bruce Angus Leeming wrote: > > Bruce Pourciau wrote: > > > 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? > > Edit->Preferences dialog. > Look and Feel->User interface pane. > Maximum last files counter. > > > (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. > > I don't believe that that is the TeX way. That said, there are countless > tables packages out there. One of them may well do what you want, but > you'll have to use ERT (the raw latex inset, a.k.a. Evil Red Text) to use > it. > > > (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? > > Insert->Math->Display equation > a = b Cntl-Enter > > The cursor will move to between the 'a' and the '='. Move it to the end of > the equation (after the 'b' but still in the math editor) and hit > 'Cntl-Enter' again. > > Bingo, three little blue boxes appear. Use the middle one for your '='. > > Alternatively, use Insert->Math->Eqnarray or Insert->Math->AMS align. > > In fact, try out all the different equation types. Get to know 'em. > > > (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? > > You are suffering from a common misunderstanding. 'Layout' files are used > by LyX to control the appearence of the document on the screen. By and > large, the typesetting is quite simple. Latex, however, is an enormously > sophisticated typesetting engine. The layout of your document on the > printed page is controlled by latex. In turn, latex uses the .sty files to > be found at CTAN. It's these that you need to grab if you're going to > produce printed output for a particular LyX layout. > > > (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? > > This is getting more complicated ;-) > > Copy article.layout to $HOME/.lyx/layouts/my_article.layout and edit it to > suit. I'm sure that someone cleverer than me will step in here and tell > you how to modify the appearence of the quote environments. > > Alternatively, go search the 'Tips & Tricks' page to be found at > www.lyx.org (it's in the menubar). > > -- > Angus
