>>>>> "John" == John D Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello,
John> I'd like to break my book into seperate files, one for each
John> chapter, and then use the 'include file' function to string
John> these files together into the complete book. Unfortunatley, I've
John> encountered a problem with the cross-reference mechanism. I
John> cannot cross-reference any label located in a different chapter
John> simply because the 'Insert Cross Reference' dialog box only
John> lists the labels in the currently loaded file. I see the 'Name'
John> field and suspect I should be able to enter a label into this
John> field manually, but it is grayed out and disabled-- I cannot
John> enter anything into it. So... is this something I can do? If not
John> I'll have to use one big file-- doable, but not ideal.
Did you try to open the dialog box from the main document? I think
that in this case it will contain all references. You can keep it open
and switch to another document. Concerning the 'name' field, it is
used in sgml documents, where you can overload the name of a link
(think html link).
John> The sequence of chapters in my book starts, like most books,
John> with Preface, Forward, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and so forth.
John> Obviously, I don't want the Preface and Forward to be numbered--
John> they precede the first chapter.
Try to add (marked as TeX)
\frontmatter at the beginning of the document
\mainmatter at the beginning of serious things
and \backmatter before the index, toc and friends. This will also
change the page numbering (it only works with the book classes,
though).
John> Is there a way to cause margin notes to be centered on the page
John> they appear on? Obviously this gets complicated if there is more
John> than one margin note, but spacing them evenly doesn't seem
John> difficult. The problem is that some margin notes appear very
John> close to the bottom of the page they are located on and appear
John> to extend into the footer space. I think, at least in my own
John> situation, it would look better if the notes were centered. I
John> have seen books layed out this way-- is there a LATeX class that
John> will acheive this for me?
The margin note is supposed to appear near the point where they are
inserted (when possible). I am not sure of what you are trying to
accomplish here.
John> Recently there was a message regarding a hyphenation problem and
John> the solution was to install a more recent version of LATeX than
John> what is distributed with Redhat 6.0. Are there any other bits of
John> software that LyX depends on that I should upgrade beyond what
John> was on the RH6 CD?
I'm not sure about this one, but I think the answer is no.
JMarc
