Hi Richard! Thanks for the good replies... On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 17:19 -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > On 09/13/2010 12:18 PM, Etienne Snyman wrote: > > However, I would like to tweak a lot of these settings so that my > > headings are in the Sans font, and my content in the Roman font. Using > > the KOMA-script book class is not an option. > > > > > Why not?
I need my chapter headings to look a certain way... > > I have been going through the Wiki and the built-in "Customization" > > documentation, but I have no skill in writing *.layout files. I have > > tried, but I cannot seem to do what I want to do. > > > > > First of all, I'd suggest you not worry about this right now. You say > you are in the planning stages, so you may change your mind about how > you want the book to look before you finish it. These details can wait > and be tweaked and changed when you're really ready...which is one of > the nice things about LyX and LaTeX. That sounds like a good idea. I will wait. > That said, changing fonts for headers and such is relatively simple, and > you don't need to mess with layout files. There is a LaTeX package, > titlesec, that can be used to do this. Documentation is here: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/titlesec/titlesec.pdf > See the \titleformat command. > > > This also affects the page headers, which I want to look a certain way. > > Because LyX is based on LaTeX, I know that various layouts can be set. > > > > > Page headers are most easily set using the fancyhdr package. There's > some discussion of it in the LyX docs, more in the fancyhdr docs: > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf > > rh Could I contact you again later for more help? Thanks Etienne
