Ahh right! There are none so blind as they who will not look (carefully)! Corrected and it works beautifully
Changed the Article to ARTICLE (for the same period flavour as the original) as a little test and learned what that bit of the code does. A step forward. I have memoir and will update the text for the changes you have shown me and then experiment as you suggest. Then to chase up the links. Lots to look forward to ---thank you, J-Marc. On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 11:17 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bruce> J-Marc Happy to carry out the correspondence in the list > ... > > Bruce> (Blind copying here as I do not understand apart from what I > Bruce> read) > > So blind that you forgot a \ before "thesection" on the second line :) > > Bruce> Now, the bit that I did not clearly set out is that I am using > Bruce> Document class 'book (mwbk)' ... > > mwbk is a document class that is supposed to be tailored for books > written in Polish. I doubt this is what you want to do. If you want a > high quality and customizable class, I suggest to look up memoir. It > has a great manual that first explains how to typeset a book and > second how to use memoir commands. > > Note that some memoir commands are not (yet) supported transparently > by LyX. > > Bruce> Would the purchase of the TeXbook be the next step? Or should I > Bruce> just go back to the LyX Help files and chase down ERT > Bruce> explanations? > > I think the fix I pointed above will be sufficient to get you started. > If you want to read about LaTeX, the TeXbook is definitely not the > first book to read. You could maybe try the not so short introduction > to LaTeX > http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf > or the memoir class documentation > http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf > > JMarc -- Bruce Ernest Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
