Hi,
On 12-Jan-99 Markus Baeurle wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm currently writing my diploma thesis with KLyX. I've had no previous
> experience with it or LaTeX so far.
> There are a few minor things I don't like so much, especially I'd like more
> control about where figure floats are placed in the text. I have set the
> placement rules to "htbp" in the Layout -> Document dialog already but the
> result doesn't always satisfy me. Well, I'm still used to WYSIWYG too much I
> guess.
You can use the float package to give you ultimative control over float
placements.
Put
\usepackage{float}
in your preamble then, in order to place a float exactly where it appears in
the text specify the option H.
To change the behaviour on the basis of individual floats I shall repost
an earlier hint from JMarc
JMArc said:
>> It is not possible currently. However, you can try the following
>> (dirty) trick: put as the first characters of your float (before the
>> image) the float placement option marked as LaTeX (for ex. [ht]).
>> Hope this helps.
>> JMarc
> But in general I'm really happy with that beast. I haven't lost any text so
> far through it (something you usually can't say about "industry standard"
> word processors), only a few lines trough a freeze of my SuSE 6.0 system when
> I switched to a virtual console.
> Both LyX and KLyX crashed a few times when I was simply typing text, but they
> always saved emergency files and recovered. I can't give much more info about
> these crashes, nothing special was printed or so, it was a SEGV, that's all I
> can say. Haven't seen any of these for a few weeks.
>
In general, I believe that as a total beginner you may be able to crash LyX
once
or twice, wouldn't it be scary if it were different ? Once you get familiar
with
the handling of LyX you'll probably wont see any crashes for long periods of
time.
> Now for my real "problems". I'm not sure if they're rather LaTeX problems but
> I know very little about it.
> The first one is that I my document ends with a few chapters of appendixes (I
> selected "Start of Appendix" before them so everything is OK with them)
> followed by a table of figures and a bibliography. Both of them don't show up
> in the table of contents but I really need them to be in there!
Has been solved by an earlier post.
> The second one has to do with page layout. I chose the fancy layout in
> Layout -> Document. As you probably know, it puts the chapter heading on the
> left and the section heading on the right of the top of each page. If these
> headings are long, they run into each other and thus become unreadable.
> This has disappointed me quite a bit and led to some jokes from colleagues in
> the department ("Are you sure you're using the right tool?").
FUD ! Get used to it,
Some people become unflexible in their ways even very early in their life.
Because they can not move themselves anymore they will be moved some day.
> How can I
> correct this? I think the best way would be if the section heading on the
> right was simply truncated to fit.
>
You can completely redefine the header and footer behaviour of the fancy
page style.
Your LaTeX installation, I suppose you are using teTeX on Linux cause thats
what I have, has documentation to all available packages:
In your case goto <path_to_teTeX>/texmf/doc/latex/fancyhdr/ and print
fancyhdr.dvi using the dvips program.
It'll explain all your options.
> I have two more glitches I'd like to mention.
> The first one is that two spaces are always removed. I frequently want to
> replace a whole word, so I delete it (by hitting backspace several times) to
> type in the new one. But as soon as the last letter is deleted, two spaces
> meet, one is removed and the cursor is put at the end of the left word. I'd
> prefer if the two spaces remained there until the cursor is moved away so I
> could insert my new word without further steps.
I agree but thats a minor thing actually and should probably be requested on
the
developers list.
> Second, program code typeset in LyX-Code isn't split very intelligently if it
> hits the end of page which also disappointed me quite a bit. In my case,
> about three lines were put on the first page, with half of the page empty. On
> the next page came a few more lines, an empty line (why wasn't the page break
> put here?) followed by a lot of lines which ran over the end of the page - it
> seems because no empty line was found where the page break could be put.
> Why won't the page break be put whereever it is necessary? No problem in
> program code IMHO.
> I helped myself by putting a protected space in Standard environment at the
> place where I want the page break to occur, which is a very ugly workaround.
>
There is certaily a package that is specially suited for typesetting source
code.
While I do not have the name of the package currentyou may have to
look on the CTAN catalog on:
ftp://tug2.cs.umb.edu/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/catalogue.html
> I hope somebody can help me with my two problems because my thesis is due
> next Monday (18th).
> --
> So long, Markus
>
Hope this helps.
Roland
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