A few questions about creating a book

Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm not mistaken, that if I change things after

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:10:48 +, L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: Another one: when exporting the book to text, the child chapters are not included in the output. How can I fix that? Thanks, L

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On 11/29/2011 08:10 PM, L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 08:10:48 PM L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:19 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: You shouldn't need to do this, so long as you open the child documents AS children of the master. I.e., you open the master first, then open the child from within it. Alternatively, you can set a default master in each of the children.

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:14:07 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: This isn't responsive to your question, but I've had great success keeping my whole 108K word document in a single file. I see an awful lot of questions on the LyX list concerning how to get child docs to work, and am always glad I don't

A few questions about creating a book

Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm not mistaken, that if I change things after

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:10:48 +, L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: Another one: when exporting the book to text, the child chapters are not included in the output. How can I fix that? Thanks, L

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On 11/29/2011 08:10 PM, L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 08:10:48 PM L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:19 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: You shouldn't need to do this, so long as you open the child documents AS children of the master. I.e., you open the master first, then open the child from within it. Alternatively, you can set a default master in each of the children.

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:14:07 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: This isn't responsive to your question, but I've had great success keeping my whole 108K word document in a single file. I see an awful lot of questions on the LyX list concerning how to get child docs to work, and am always glad I don't

A few questions about creating a book

Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm not mistaken, that if I change things after

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:10:48 +, L Duperval wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: > Another one: when exporting the book to text, the child chapters are not included in the output. How can I fix that? Thanks, L

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On 11/29/2011 08:10 PM, L Duperval wrote: Hi, I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tuesday, November 29, 2011 08:10:48 PM L Duperval wrote: > Hi, > > I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes: > > - Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently > splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to > rec

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:19 -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > You shouldn't need to do this, so long as you open the child documents > AS children of the master. I.e., you open the master first, then open > the child from within it. Alternatively, you can set a "default master" > in each of the

Re: A few questions about creating a book

On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:14:07 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > This isn't responsive to your question, but I've had great success > keeping my whole 108K word document in a single file. I see an awful lot > of questions on the LyX list concerning how to get child docs to work, > and am always glad I

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Hello A bit late since I had trouble finding the reference. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't want to add them with the Author class. What kind of options I have? 3) I need to

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Hello A bit late since I had trouble finding the reference. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't want to add them with the Author class. What kind of options I have? 3) I need to

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Hello A bit late since I had trouble finding the reference. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Dino Vliet wrote: > 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't > want to add them with the Author class. What kind of options I have? > 3) I need

a few questions regarding lyx

Hi folks,   I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things:   1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't want to add them with the Author class.

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On 09/16/2010 10:21 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? What kind of subtitle do you mean? For the entire document? 2) I have two

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Am 16.09.2010 16:34, schrieb Richard Heck: I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? LyX 1.6.8 will support KOMA-scripts subtitles. For now you can add them by adding the

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On Thursday 16 September 2010 10:21:11 Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the

a few questions regarding lyx

Hi folks,   I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things:   1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't want to add them with the Author class.

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On 09/16/2010 10:21 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? What kind of subtitle do you mean? For the entire document? 2) I have two

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Am 16.09.2010 16:34, schrieb Richard Heck: I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? LyX 1.6.8 will support KOMA-scripts subtitles. For now you can add them by adding the

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On Thursday 16 September 2010 10:21:11 Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the

a few questions regarding lyx

Hi folks,   I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things:   1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on the first page. I don 't want to add them with the Author class.

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On 09/16/2010 10:21 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? What kind of subtitle do you mean? For the entire document? 2) I have two

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

Am 16.09.2010 16:34, schrieb Richard Heck: I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I don't know how to do the following things: 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? LyX 1.6.8 will support KOMA-scripts subtitles. For now you can add them by adding the

Re: a few questions regarding lyx

On Thursday 16 September 2010 10:21:11 Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm using the report (KOMA-script) document class to write my thesis and I > don't know how to do the following things: > 1) Subtitles: how to add the to my document? > 2) I have two supervisors who's names need to be on

Re: A few questions

jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit | | Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered | "bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. | | as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different | skip

Re: A few questions

jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit | | Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered | "bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. | | as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different | skip

Re: A few questions

jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit | | >Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered | >"bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. | | as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different |

Re: A few questions

"jdd" == jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdd I have just got a look at a ton of french and english technical jdd books. None of them use any paragraph indentation at all. That's why LyX offers this choice too. jdd But in general literature books, beginning to "Grevisse, Le bon jdd usage", the

Re: A few questions

"jdd" == jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdd I have just got a look at a ton of french and english technical jdd books. None of them use any paragraph indentation at all. That's why LyX offers this choice too. jdd But in general literature books, beginning to "Grevisse, Le bon jdd usage", the

Re: A few questions

> "jdd" == jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdd> I have just got a look at a ton of french and english technical jdd> books. None of them use any paragraph indentation at all. That's why LyX offers this choice too. jdd> But in general literature books, beginning to "Grevisse, Le bon jdd>

Re: A few questions

"jdd" == jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdd as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a jdd different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in fact jdd no skip for this first §), I never saw this in books neither in jdd the ViewPostscript nor on the paper... Do you

Re: A few questions

jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different skip for the first paragraph after a section. Umm, Lyx is only following standard typographic convention -- The *first* paragraph of a section, or after a figure, an equation, a

Re: A few questions

"jdd" == jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jdd as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a jdd different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in fact jdd no skip for this first §), I never saw this in books neither in jdd the ViewPostscript nor on the paper... Do you

Re: A few questions

jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different skip for the first paragraph after a section. Umm, Lyx is only following standard typographic convention -- The *first* paragraph of a section, or after a figure, an equation, a

Re: A few questions

> "jdd" == jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdd> as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a jdd> different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in fact jdd> no skip for this first §), I never saw this in books neither in jdd> the ViewPostscript nor on the

Re: A few questions

> jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a > different skip for the first paragraph after a section. Umm, Lyx is only following standard typographic convention -- The *first* paragraph of a section, or after a figure, an

Re: A few questions

On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered "bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in

Re: A few questions

On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered "bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in

Re: A few questions

On ven, 05 mai 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes à écrit >Note that in the typographic traditions I have seen this is considered >"bad taste", you either skip or indent not both. as of typographic tradition, may I ask why lyx insists to use a different skip for the first paragraph after a section. (in

Re: A few questions

Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: | | - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout | settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would | like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between | them. Any magic latex

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: choose indent and in tex (red)   \parskip1cm plus1cm minus 0.5cm   (the values are only examples) What does each one mean? I guess that \parskip is the option that I can change in the document layout dialog (medskip, bigskip, etc.). What are the 'plus'

Re: A few questions

Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: | | - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout | settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would | like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between | them. Any magic latex

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: choose indent and in tex (red)   \parskip1cm plus1cm minus 0.5cm   (the values are only examples) What does each one mean? I guess that \parskip is the option that I can change in the document layout dialog (medskip, bigskip, etc.). What are the 'plus'

Re: A few questions

Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: | > | > - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout | > settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would | > like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between | > them. Any

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > > >choose indent and in tex (red)   \parskip1cm plus1cm minus 0.5cm   > >(the values are only examples) > > What does each one mean? I guess that \parskip is the option that > I can change in the document layout dialog (medskip, bigskip, etc.). > What are the

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between them. Any magic latex for the preamble, maybe? choose indent and in tex

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between them. Any magic latex for the preamble, maybe? choose indent and in tex

Re: A few questions

Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote: > > - I can specify either Skip or Indent in the document layout > settings; but how do I go about having both of them ? I would > like my paragraphs indented and with some separation between > them. Any magic latex for the preamble, maybe? choose indent and in

a few questions...

I have a few questions that I haven't been able to solve on my own. Until now, I managed, but these issues have me stumped. Using AMS-article class, 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1. 2. Is it possible to create a table of equations such that the equations can

Re: a few questions...

Hello, 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1 In the preamble, you may put : \addtocounter{section}{-1} Sorry, I only have an answer to this one, Etienne

a few questions...

I have a few questions that I haven't been able to solve on my own. Until now, I managed, but these issues have me stumped. Using AMS-article class, 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1. 2. Is it possible to create a table of equations such that the equations can

Re: a few questions...

Hello, 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1 In the preamble, you may put : \addtocounter{section}{-1} Sorry, I only have an answer to this one, Etienne

a few questions...

I have a few questions that I haven't been able to solve on my own. Until now, I managed, but these issues have me stumped. Using AMS-article class, 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1. 2. Is it possible to create a table of equations such that the equations can

Re: a few questions...

Hello, > 1. How set the section count to start at 0 instead of 1 In the preamble, you may put : \addtocounter{section}{-1} Sorry, I only have an answer to this one, Etienne