Most document classes have a layout file by the same name. There is a report.layout in the libs/ subdir of your lyx installation. On Linux, this would be, for example, /usr/share/lyx/libs/report.layout - I don't know where this resides on windows (try a find for this file name).
You can copy this layout to a local directory and modify it and then supply this from Document->Settings...->Document class->Local layout ... The Customization manual can be invoked from the LyX Help menu. cheers! Manoj On Monday 22 February 2010 12:31:20 pm Sajjad wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Manoj Rajagopalan <rma...@umich.edu> wrote: > > You could copy the layout file corresponding to your documentclass, > > modify that changing youxr fontsize etc., possibly introduce a new section > > and map it > > to the appropriate latexname, and use that as your layout. This is quite > > simple and the learning curve should take you a couple of days at most. > > Could you please expalin which layout do i have to copy and where to? > > > Before you do this, check to see if your document class provides support > > for > > acknowledgements, directly or indirectly. With the layout file approach > > you might be able to create an Acknowledgements section which is a > > combination of > > a section with custom formatting info (like heading level, style, etc.) > > which. > > I am using the report document class to write my thesis. > > > One of the lyx help manuals (Customization?) documents this procedure > > very well. > > Link to that manual will be very helpful, since there are many version of > manuals > > > -- Manoj > > Regards > Sajjad > > > On Sunday 21 February 2010 12:09:14 pm Sajjad wrote: > > > Hello forum, > > > > > > I am about to finish my thesis work and i am stuck with some issues in > > > > LyX. > > > > > One of them is writing Acknowledgement section. > > > > > > I see that there is no separate environment for this. > > > > > > > > > I would like to have Acknowledgement right after Abstract and like to > > > > have > > > > > the same font size as "Abstract" heading and centralized. > > > > > > > > > Any hint? > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > Sajjad
