On Sunday 11 June 2006 05:52 pm, Eric Fuchs wrote: > Hello all: > > I am writing a book, which originally started out as > a bunch of articles written for a class. Every article > was written using LyX's article layout. Now, I want to > put them all into a single book, using the book > layout. This is what I've done for every article: > 1. Eliminated the author environment > 2. Transformed the article-layout to book layout > 3. Transformed the title of the article to chapter > > I want now, to just copy-paste each chapter in > consecutive order to create a book. My problem lies > with the tables. All the tables give out errors when > compiling. If I create the table again (even with the > same data) the problems goes away.
Does the error occur when compiling a single converted article, or when compiling the whole concatination? Further diagnosis would require the error messages thrown during compilation. > > Am I doing something wrong? Is there a better way of > doing this? My first thought was to use Vim to cut out each article minus its preamble, paste it onto the end of the book (with preamble), and put in a chapter mark. Also, you'd need to do something about any Part or Part* environments in your articles so they don't clash with the book's Part and Part*, since they clearly would not be used for the same purpose. When I start a new book, I lay out the structure in VimOutliner, and then use a script to convert VimOutliner to a book document class's Part, Chapter, Section, Subsection, SubSubsection, Paragraph and SubParagraph environments, and then paste that into an empty document preamble. Also, I frequently make small tweaks to a LyX document in Vim. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm
