It's the time for my diploma thesis. Our University has rules that quite
well match the default LaTeX settings, but not exactly.
First I'd like to ask, which is easier/better to customize, Koma-script or
some standard LaTeX style (I'm using koma-article since it seems to
match best). It looks like Koma matches slightly better the rules, but I
can't do everything with it what I could do in standard report.
1) Is possible to automatically captilize some words, \capitalize{some
text}? I do not mean smallcaps. I can of course just write the text with
SHIFT PRESSED DOWN put it's cumbersome and I'd like to automatically
capitalize first-level sections.
Furthermore, I want the words "Contents" and "References" in caps. If I
could just automatically captitalize the section style, that should do
it. If not, how can I redefine these two words into capital versions?
I tried \def\contentsname{CONTENTS} but it didn't work.
2) Section/chapter title styles.
Reading komascript docs, I found how to set a style that is applied to
all levels of (sub)section headers. Is it possible to set some style to
be, for example, first level section specific?
3) Caption style. By default Latex gives "Figure 1: A nice picture" but I
want "Figure 1. A nice picture". I read
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html
which works for figures but not for tables: for tables it should be
"Table 1. Some statistics" but the word "Table" is replaced with the word
"Figure".
4) Is it possible to right-align the Author on title page and make space
between it and the Title, how? I did this with Ctrl-Enter and Ctrl-Space,
works but is ugly.
5) Is it possible to vertically-center the Title on title page, how?
I tried to use VFills but they didn't work.
Any references (www links, tetex docs) are welcome.
