Hi again, and thanks for all your answer. I will try to answer to all your email.
On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote: > > 1) i selected the book "style", is that correct for my thesis? i'm not > > sure of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this > > question seeing the other problems. (I hope...) > > Alberto, > > Does your university have either A) a defined thesis format or B) LaTeX > class for that format? I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the "good layout" with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list. > > 2) i'm not able to obtain a common way to see the page numbers; sometimes > > the page number is on the top-right corner of the page, sometimes on the > > bottom (the first page of each chapter, and in the index pages). Can i > > decide where the page number must be printed? > > Yes. The fancyhdr package lets you control what information is seen. I will search for it. thanks > > 4) I need the bibliografy!!! :) but i'm not able to do it works. :( > > As i see i could able to put into my thesis a biblio composed of some > > books (of which i must say to lyx the path to reach them), but i has not > > that books! I only knows their names. How can i put into my bibliografy > > the name of the books that i know, but that i don't own on my hard disk? > > Look for the bibtex documentation on your system. This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway i will search! > > 5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my > > images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments > > that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it > > is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element > > after the wrapped area, but it does not work.... :( I use the wrapped > > area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure list too. > > Use a figure float for your figures. This lets the software determine > the best placement. You can center the figure by using > Layout->Paragraph->Center. In most books, the figure caption is placed > beneath the figure and the table caption is placed on top of the table. I tried as you told me, but it does not work always....For the moment i has two images. The first is immediately followed by a different section. It that case the float does not appear (while the wrapped area works). In the second image the float works and wrapped area not. I think that i'm wrong something (sure with lyx works either or at least one of two ways, but i'm not able to use lyx as we can see) > > Some other people told me to use OpenOffice, but i beleve in lyx! ...am i > > wrong? > > No. At least, that's what most of us think. However, if your university > has format requirements that would take a lot of effort to enable in LyX > then perhaps OO.o would be quicker for you. I will remember of this. > Rich Thanks for your answer! Alberto On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put >>their >> names on the authour field. i would like something like this: >> >> cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Use only one author paragraph and separate the names by a forced line >break (shortcut C-Enter). > >regards Uwe Thanks this work perfectly! Alberto On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Subir Singh Lamba wrote: >Hi, > >I have been using lyx since some time and at present I am writing my >thesis. For that I have downloaded a sketch of thesis from University of >Durham. If you need I can send you in email and you will have to just >tweak it according to your requirement as the file is really a good find. > >Subir Of course. I will appreciate that a lot. Thanks! Alberto P.S. You can mail me at the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >> I tried to use lyx some years ago, when i installed it, and now. I have >> mainly these problems: >> >> 1) i selected the book "style", is that correct for my thesis? i'm not sure >> of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this question >> seeing the other problems. (I hope...) > >IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main classes >(article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a new page. >I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook (that is "book >(koma)") or memoir, because these two are much more flexible. KOMA has been >designed with regard to European typesetting conventions. Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some other "styles" i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use different style imply use different "headers" (for section, chapter, and so on). So i changed the headers, but the errors remains. So to fix this problem i opened a new file and i copied into that new lyx file the text. Isn't it a way too heuristic? ..yes of course to obtain something good from anything i should at least know the tools...but lyx is a point&click tool.... so i think that user should be obtain all that they wish using the same "policy". Am i wrong? (probably there is the way, but i don't know it!) >> 2) i'm not able to obtain a common way to see the page numbers; sometimes >> the page number is on the top-right corner of the page, sometimes on the >> bottom (the first page of each chapter, and in the index pages). Can i >> decide where the page number must be printed? > >This is a feature. There is a convention in book typography that the first >page of a chapter has no headers and either no page numbering at all or in >the footer. You can change this to whatever you need. The overall style can >be changed with Format->Document->Page Style. Then You can do some fine >tuning with LaTeX magic. Just ask! Thanks...i found (i think) the right page style. I selected Layout->Document->Layout (from the left frame) and on the right frame at the text-area: "page style" i choosed: "playn". Now all the pages of my document are written at bottom. The fancy option is good too, but if i has a long section title then the left part (in the header) overwrites the right part. >> 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put >> their names on the authour field. i would like something like this: >> >> cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> .... >> (on the middle of the screen) but if i put all these lines into the author >> field i obtain a line that is printed on a single line but it is too long >> so it is cutted at the end of the screen. >> But if i create more author fields i see only the last field (in the above >> example i see only: lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >Does this help? >http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/MultipleAuthors Yes. I read it. It suggest to use C-return. Thanks. >> 4) I need the bibliografy!!! :) but i'm not able to do it works. :( >> As i see i could able to put into my thesis a biblio composed of some books >> (of which i must say to lyx the path to reach them), but i has not that >> books! I only knows their names. How can i put into my bibliografy the name >> of the books that i know, but that i don't own on my hard disk? > >Do you use bibtex? I'd recommend that. You can use a graphical tool (e.g. >http://www.pybliographer.org with Linux) to edit the database. The database >has file has to be placed in a directory where LaTeX can find it >(~/texmf/tex/bibtex/bib/) or in you documents directory and then included >with Insert->Lists&ToC->BibTeX Reference). Then Input->Citation... >There's even a nifty tool where you can generate bibtex entries from an >Amazon.com query (the site is in german, but that should not matter): >http://amatex.informatik-uni-oldenburg.de Now i'm not able to install that on my slackware box. When i will go to Bologna (another italian city, where i study) i will use gentoo, and i will install the software with that (it is easier for a beginner as me). >> 5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my >> images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments that >> i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it is >> between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element after >> the wrapped area, but it does not work.... :( >> I use the wrapped area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure list >> too. > >Can you send a small example showing the misbehaviour? At this mailing list? I would not "spam" you. Can i send it? At present my document is 32kb weight. >> Some other people told me to use OpenOffice, but i beleve in lyx! ...am i >> wrong? > >This list is probably not a good place to ask that ;-) I know it was only a provocative sentence. :) >Regards, >Jürgen Thanks a lot! Alberto On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Georg Baum wrote: Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: >Another good tool is cb2bib: http://www.molspaces.com/cb2bib/ >Georg I will try that too. thanks. Alberto =============== Thanks at all for the help... and sorry for my bad english! :) Alberto
