On 08/05/2011 09:29 AM, bart deruyter wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to typeset my novel, that I want to publish soon. I have > started using lyx because it hides most of the technical stuff, so I > can concentrate on the writing. > > But I'm having quite some trouble to get things looking right, things > I thought were handled automatically. > > First of all, my TOC remains empty. As I understood, I just had to do > 'Insert -> list/TOC -> Table of contents. I do use the correct > paragraph types, Part, Chapter, section, subsection etc... so I > thought the TOC would be generated automatically when viewing the pdf, > but it does not. > Do these show up properly under the navigation menu? How about in the outline?
You might also want to check under Document>Settings>Numbering & TOC. > Secondly, a novel is rarely printed on A4, and the company I'd like to > ask to print my book gives a discount on printing on A5 (printing on > demand service) so I thought changing the document setting page size > from A4 to A5. This obviously has a big influence on the flow of the > text. My language is Dutch, and hyphenation is horrible. I do have > texlive-lang-dutch installed. Also, words that can be split sometimes > are not, which results in many, many overfull \hbox (from LaTeX Log). > The margins are not followed. > I'd check the margins, for one thing; the default ones may be too wide for A5 paper. Also, you may want to reduce the font size. 10 point should be right. Hyphenation is entirely a LaTeX issue. Perhaps the hyphenation files for Dutch just aren't very good. I do not know. Richard
