Fractions

[Matt Williams]

Dear List,

I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:


a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d

I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?

Matt

Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

Re: Fractions

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

If you select fraction then in the top box of the fraction select matrix 
and choose a 2x1 matrix then you get two lines on the top of the fraction.

I also chose a 1x1 matrix on the bottom so the format is the same.
The only draw back is that the bottom of the fraction is not left aligned.
See attched.
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3


logic.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Hi
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign

so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing
Geoff

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the equals
sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in the
rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
 equals sign

 so you have

 moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing
 
 Geoff,
 
Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
 
 Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert-Math menu.

File-New
Insert-Math-Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View-DVI

-- 
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign
I suppose the align environment - amsmath ...
so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing

Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
  = blahblah
  = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
  the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!
why is a matrix nonsense??

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert-Math menu.
the eqnarray is absolutely nonsense - wrong spacing
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Thankyou for all the different ways.  I am sure they all have a use 
somewhere depending on layout.

Actually i guess i just needed to know how to move down a line in eqnarray 
as that is what i was trying to do

Ctrl-enter should have guessed
Thanks again
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
   Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
   the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert-Math menu.
File-New
Insert-Math-Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View-DVI
--
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
  Oh. OK, Angus.
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert-Math menu.
  Don't think I've used this myself.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Typography aesthetic question

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

First, thanks to Matej for suggesting the sectsty package for customizing 
structural headings (section, subsection, subsubsection). It works nicely so 
I'll be using it.

Because the audience of my new book is managers, I don't want section numbers 
-- too geeky. That means in order to clearly delineate where the reader is in 
the book's structure, I need to make section, subsection and subsubsection so 
incredibly different from each other that at a glance the reader knows the 
difference. Font sizes are a good start, but to make them different enough 
I'd need to make section Huge or huge, either of which makes for a heck of a 
lot of 2 line headings, which is ugly and adds to shipping costs through 
increased pages.

One thing I can do is for each section, subsection and subsubsection, prepend 
a .4 inch line followed by .1 inch of space before the heading. In the case 
of section, the heading would be .2 inches thick, which looks like a block. 
The subsection would be 0.5 inches thick, which looks like a very thick line. 
The subsubsection would be 0.1 inches thick, which looks like a thin line.

Text of headings would be bold sans serif, Large for section, large for 
subsection, and subscriptsize for subsubsection.

Here's the code:

% ### SectSty: Special appearance for section headers ###
\usepackage{sectsty}%   Special fonts for sections
\sectionfont{\Large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.2in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsectionfont{\large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.05in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsubsectionfont{\footnotesize\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.01in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}

Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial book aimed at an audience 
of managers, or am I committing aesthetic suicide?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org

Re: Typography aesthetic question

[Robert Thorsby]

On 2005.04.09 04:07 Steve Litt wrote:
Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial
book aimed at an audience of managers, or am I
committing aesthetic suicide?
To start, your audience is the worst possible one. A manager's arrogant 
opinion of his own omniscience is exceeded only by his ignorance.

You should be looking at less, not more, for your typography and 
layout. Less font families, less font sizes, less font angles, less 
font weights, less fancy layout. In short, less layout fanciness.

If there is something in your readers' industry that is a standard then 
use that standard. For example, lawyers are familiar with the style and 
layout of legislation (even though there a number a different layouts 
for legislation). Is there a standard textbook, or learned journal, in 
your target industry -- use that layout.

Get hold of a published style manual -- The Chicago Manual of Style, 
The Austn Govt Pub. Service's Manual of Style, etc. Stick to that.

If you want an idea of how stupid *publishers* can be -- let alone the 
great unwashed who have been let loose on word processors -- consider 
this. The requirements as to layout for doctoral theses, dissertations 
and the like is simple and unvarying the world over. Yet every 
university has its own unique style guide that must be used on pain 
of failure or non-publication.

Go and buy a (very thin) book on typography and style. The few dollars 
you spend will be the most valuable investment in your project. The 
time spent reading that primer will be the most rewarding research you 
have done.

Good luck.
Robert Thorsby

Re: Fractions

[Paul A. Rubin]

Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

In a math display environment, you can put a 4x1 array, put your 
formulas in the first, second and fourth cells and \hrulefill in the 
third row.  I'm not sure you'll like the vertical spacing, though.  (If 
you're not wedded to a math environment, you could use a 3x1 table and 
turn off all borders except the bottom of the second row.)

-- Paul

Fractions

[Matt Williams]

Dear List,

I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:


a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d

I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?

Matt

Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

Re: Fractions

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

If you select fraction then in the top box of the fraction select matrix 
and choose a 2x1 matrix then you get two lines on the top of the fraction.

I also chose a 1x1 matrix on the bottom so the format is the same.
The only draw back is that the bottom of the fraction is not left aligned.
See attched.
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3


logic.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Hi
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign

so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing
Geoff

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the equals
sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in the
rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
 WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
 equals sign

 so you have

 moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing
 
 Geoff,
 
Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
 
 Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert-Math menu.

File-New
Insert-Math-Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View-DVI

-- 
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign
I suppose the align environment - amsmath ...
so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing

Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
  = blahblah
  = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
  the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!
why is a matrix nonsense??

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert-Math menu.
the eqnarray is absolutely nonsense - wrong spacing
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Thankyou for all the different ways.  I am sure they all have a use 
somewhere depending on layout.

Actually i guess i just needed to know how to move down a line in eqnarray 
as that is what i was trying to do

Ctrl-enter should have guessed
Thanks again
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
   Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
   the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert-Math menu.
File-New
Insert-Math-Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View-DVI
--
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
  Oh. OK, Angus.
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert-Math menu.
  Don't think I've used this myself.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Typography aesthetic question

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

First, thanks to Matej for suggesting the sectsty package for customizing 
structural headings (section, subsection, subsubsection). It works nicely so 
I'll be using it.

Because the audience of my new book is managers, I don't want section numbers 
-- too geeky. That means in order to clearly delineate where the reader is in 
the book's structure, I need to make section, subsection and subsubsection so 
incredibly different from each other that at a glance the reader knows the 
difference. Font sizes are a good start, but to make them different enough 
I'd need to make section Huge or huge, either of which makes for a heck of a 
lot of 2 line headings, which is ugly and adds to shipping costs through 
increased pages.

One thing I can do is for each section, subsection and subsubsection, prepend 
a .4 inch line followed by .1 inch of space before the heading. In the case 
of section, the heading would be .2 inches thick, which looks like a block. 
The subsection would be 0.5 inches thick, which looks like a very thick line. 
The subsubsection would be 0.1 inches thick, which looks like a thin line.

Text of headings would be bold sans serif, Large for section, large for 
subsection, and subscriptsize for subsubsection.

Here's the code:

% ### SectSty: Special appearance for section headers ###
\usepackage{sectsty}%   Special fonts for sections
\sectionfont{\Large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.2in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsectionfont{\large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.05in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsubsectionfont{\footnotesize\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.01in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}

Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial book aimed at an audience 
of managers, or am I committing aesthetic suicide?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org

Re: Typography aesthetic question

[Robert Thorsby]

On 2005.04.09 04:07 Steve Litt wrote:
Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial
book aimed at an audience of managers, or am I
committing aesthetic suicide?
To start, your audience is the worst possible one. A manager's arrogant 
opinion of his own omniscience is exceeded only by his ignorance.

You should be looking at less, not more, for your typography and 
layout. Less font families, less font sizes, less font angles, less 
font weights, less fancy layout. In short, less layout fanciness.

If there is something in your readers' industry that is a standard then 
use that standard. For example, lawyers are familiar with the style and 
layout of legislation (even though there a number a different layouts 
for legislation). Is there a standard textbook, or learned journal, in 
your target industry -- use that layout.

Get hold of a published style manual -- The Chicago Manual of Style, 
The Austn Govt Pub. Service's Manual of Style, etc. Stick to that.

If you want an idea of how stupid *publishers* can be -- let alone the 
great unwashed who have been let loose on word processors -- consider 
this. The requirements as to layout for doctoral theses, dissertations 
and the like is simple and unvarying the world over. Yet every 
university has its own unique style guide that must be used on pain 
of failure or non-publication.

Go and buy a (very thin) book on typography and style. The few dollars 
you spend will be the most valuable investment in your project. The 
time spent reading that primer will be the most rewarding research you 
have done.

Good luck.
Robert Thorsby

Re: Fractions

[Paul A. Rubin]

Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c - d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

In a math display environment, you can put a 4x1 array, put your 
formulas in the first, second and fourth cells and \hrulefill in the 
third row.  I'm not sure you'll like the vertical spacing, though.  (If 
you're not wedded to a math environment, you could use a 3x1 table and 
turn off all borders except the bottom of the second row.)

-- Paul

Fractions

[Matt Williams]

Dear List,

I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:


a,b,c
if a,b,c -> d
-
d

I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?

Matt

Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

Re: Fractions

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

If you select fraction then in the top box of the fraction select matrix 
and choose a 2x1 matrix then you get two lines on the top of the fraction.

I also chose a 1x1 matrix on the bottom so the format is the same.
The only draw back is that the bottom of the fraction is not left aligned.
See attched.
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c -> d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3


logic.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Hi
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign

so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing
Geoff

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the equals
sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in the
rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Angus Leeming]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>> WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
>> equals sign
>>
>> so you have
>>
>> moo = blah
>>= blahblah
>>= thing
> 
> Geoff,
> 
>Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
>the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
> 
> Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert->Math menu.

File->New
Insert->Math->Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View->DVI

-- 
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the 
equals sign
I suppose the align environment -> amsmath ...
so you have
moo = blah
= blahblah
= thing

Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Herbert Voss]

Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
  = blahblah
  = thing
Geoff,
  Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
  the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich

Nonsense, my dear Richard!
why is a matrix nonsense??

Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the 
Insert->Math menu.
the eqnarray is absolutely nonsense -> wrong spacing
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

Thankyou for all the different ways.  I am sure they all have a use 
somewhere depending on layout.

Actually i guess i just needed to know how to move down a line in eqnarray 
as that is what i was trying to do

Ctrl-enter should have guessed
Thanks again
Geoff
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
WOndered if there was an easy way to align a set of equations to the
equals sign
so you have
moo = blah
   = blahblah
   = thing
Geoff,
   Have you tried a matrix? Leave cells empty in the left column, fill in
   the rest. Math mode; use the panel.
Rich
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert->Math menu.
File->New
Insert->Math->Eqnarray Environment
Type 'a'
Right arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'b'
Cntl-Enter
Down arrow
Left arrow
Type '='
Right arrow
Type 'c'
View->DVI
--
Angus

Re: ALigning to the equals sign

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:
Nonsense, my dear Richard!
  Oh. OK, Angus.
Geoff, use the Eqnarray or one of the AMS align environments in the
Insert->Math menu.
  Don't think I've used this myself.
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Typography aesthetic question

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

First, thanks to Matej for suggesting the sectsty package for customizing 
structural headings (section, subsection, subsubsection). It works nicely so 
I'll be using it.

Because the audience of my new book is managers, I don't want section numbers 
-- too geeky. That means in order to clearly delineate where the reader is in 
the book's structure, I need to make section, subsection and subsubsection so 
incredibly different from each other that at a glance the reader knows the 
difference. Font sizes are a good start, but to make them different enough 
I'd need to make section Huge or huge, either of which makes for a heck of a 
lot of 2 line headings, which is ugly and adds to shipping costs through 
increased pages.

One thing I can do is for each section, subsection and subsubsection, prepend 
a .4 inch line followed by .1 inch of space before the heading. In the case 
of section, the heading would be .2 inches thick, which looks like a block. 
The subsection would be 0.5 inches thick, which looks like a very thick line. 
The subsubsection would be 0.1 inches thick, which looks like a thin line.

Text of headings would be bold sans serif, Large for section, large for 
subsection, and subscriptsize for subsubsection.

Here's the code:

% ### SectSty: Special appearance for section headers ###
\usepackage{sectsty}%   Special fonts for sections
\sectionfont{\Large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.2in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsectionfont{\large\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.05in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}
\subsubsectionfont{\footnotesize\sffamily\upshape\bfseries\rule[0in]{0.4in}
{0.01in}\rule[0in]{.1in}{0in}}

Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial book aimed at an audience 
of managers, or am I committing aesthetic suicide?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Founder and acting president: GoLUG
http://www.golug.org

Re: Typography aesthetic question

[Robert Thorsby]

On 2005.04.09 04:07 Steve Litt wrote:
Is that reasonable for a self-published, commercial
book aimed at an audience of managers, or am I
committing aesthetic suicide?
To start, your audience is the worst possible one. A manager's arrogant 
opinion of his own omniscience is exceeded only by his ignorance.

You should be looking at less, not more, for your typography and 
layout. Less font families, less font sizes, less font angles, less 
font weights, less fancy layout. In short, less layout fanciness.

If there is something in your readers' industry that is a standard then 
use that standard. For example, lawyers are familiar with the style and 
layout of legislation (even though there a number a different layouts 
for legislation). Is there a standard textbook, or learned journal, in 
your target industry -- use that layout.

Get hold of a published style manual -- The Chicago Manual of Style, 
The Austn Govt Pub. Service's Manual of Style, etc. Stick to that.

If you want an idea of how stupid *publishers* can be -- let alone the 
great unwashed who have been let loose on word processors -- consider 
this. The requirements as to layout for doctoral theses, dissertations 
and the like is simple and unvarying the world over. Yet every 
university has its own "unique" style guide that must be used on pain 
of failure or non-publication.

Go and buy a (very thin) book on typography and style. The few dollars 
you spend will be the most valuable investment in your project. The 
time spent reading that primer will be the most rewarding research you 
have done.

Good luck.
Robert Thorsby

Re: Fractions

[Paul A. Rubin]

Matt Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I'm trying to insert a (logical) formula, of the form:
a,b,c
if a,b,c -> d
-
d
I'm trying to do it using a fraction, but don't know how to get a double
top line. Any ideas?
Matt
Lyx 1.3.5 on Linux fc3

In a math display environment, you can put a 4x1 array, put your 
formulas in the first, second and fourth cells and \hrulefill in the 
third row.  I'm not sure you'll like the vertical spacing, though.  (If 
you're not wedded to a math environment, you could use a 3x1 table and 
turn off all borders except the bottom of the second row.)

-- Paul