On Wednesday 14 June 2006 18:47, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi Matej, > > Looks good from a casual read, and I'll try this, but your email brings up > a much more serious topic -- *how the heck did you learn this???* > > I know you didn't learn it in Kopka and Daly's "Guide to LaTeX", because I > read that book cover to cover and there were no more than a few sentences > on the use of the \let TeX primative.
I have learned this trick using "tips and tricks" from Herbert Voß: http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=titlepage/titlepage This is linked in LyX front page. :-) I have used this to redefine the titlepage to follow my University's requirement. > You've given me several suggestions like this, most of which are > incorporated in the .layout files of my various books. Could you please > tell me (and everyone else on this list) where you learned this, and how, > and a little about your mental state and process when you learned this. At least for me "LaTeX tips and tricks" is always a nice place to start. :-) > The lyx-users list has discussion after discussion about how to make a > customized environment, command, or whatever. The typical response is "use > package whatever" or "you don't need that feature". If all of us learned > what you know about LaTeX and TeX (\let is pure TeX from what I > understand), we'd all be much happier LyX users if we could whip out a > quick LaTeX solution to our formatting needs. > > Thanks so much > > SteveT -- José Abílio
