Thanks for your help. My first idea was to do this in libreoffice and just merge the 2 pdf. But given that I'm pushing people to use LyX and they have (or will have) to do the same thing it would be great to have it in a LyX template file.
Can you help me with the "ERT" stuff that you mentioned? Thanks! On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 02:00:51 PM Richard Heck wrote: > > On 07/13/2011 11:46 AM, Ignacio Martinez wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this > > > <http://people.virginia.edu/%7Eim5j/cover.pdf>? > > > > Yes, because you can make it look that way using some LaTeX. Have a > > look at one of the thesis classes and look, in particular, at the > > \maketitle command and what it does. You can modify it for your > > purposes. > > > > That said, as Steve Litt will also say if he doesn't read this > > message first, if this is just a one-time thing, then don't mess > > with LaTeX to do the cover. Just do it in whatever, export it to > > PDF, and use something like pdftk to add it at the end. > > :-) > > That's just sooooo 2006. :-) By 2008 I knew how to do a cover in > Inkscape and place it as the first page of an eBook. Here's my latest > cover: > > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/images/larry_cover_pro_fullsize.png > > To put that on the first page I do something like this: > > ====================== > \begin_body > > \begin_layout Standard > \begin_inset ERT > status open > > \begin_layout Plain Layout > > > \backslash > frontmatter > \backslash > thispagestyle{empty} > \backslash > setcounter{page}{1} > \backslash > enlargethispage{1.90in}~ > \backslash > > \backslash > [-5.6in] > \backslash > leftskip -2.07in > \backslash > hfill > \backslash > vfill > \end_layout > > \end_inset > > > \end_layout > > \begin_layout Standard > \begin_inset Graphics > filename images/larry_cover_pro_centuryschool.svg > lyxscale 33 > > \end_inset > > > \begin_inset Newpage clearpage > \end_inset > > > \end_layout > ====================== > > What Ignacio wants to do isn't nearly that complex. He can do it with > a tiny bit of ERT, which is what I recommend for all frontmatters. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > >
