Hi, How do I control \headheight (etc)?
First; As an social anthropologist, and as one of the very, very few LYX-users at the faculty of humanities: LYX is absoulutely faboulous! It is a tradegy that 99.9% of my colleauges use MS Word. But sometimes using LYX can be frustrating, as I am the only person at my department who even know that there is such a thing as LYX/LaTeX. I have nobody to talk to, to get the simple advice from. Like now: I'd like to change the font size of the header. It is extremely difficult to figure out how to do it. And the problem isn't the software -- The lyx-team is doing a wonderful job with the software! Even my old 1.1.4fix3 is excellent! (And I don't want to replace it now, as this is the version that University of Oslo distributes locally) No, the problem is this: At "Header/footer" at lyx.org/help (http://www.lyx.org/help/fancy/header.php) I learn usful AND advanced tricks. There is links to two introductory pages: http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/clmt/latex4ling/headers/ http://research.cmis.csiro.au/gjw/tex/docs/fancyhdr.pdf (I have also tried to search the web for better documentation, and perhaps there is something out there, but I haven't found it.) The latter document ("Page layout in LaTeX") tells me that \headheight sets fontsize at the header. The document also tells me that fancydhr.sty makes it possible to have control over "fonts, uppercase .. etc." But it is, to me, TOTALLY, UNUTTERLY AND ABSOLUTELY impossible to simply understand what to write in the preamble to control, for example, the \headheight. For example: Do I need to use the fancy pagestyle in order to use \headheight? And if so, what is the syntax of the command? I promise you one thing, all those of you who makes LYX into the most wonderful machine for writng scientific stuff ever, I promise that when I have completed my thesis (in a couple of mounths), I'll write a web-page called "LYX for the humanities" -- where I explain how LYX may be used to write philosophy, history, anthropology, etc. I'll do my best to improve the basic documentation of this wonderful program. Because; now I have used alomost 3 hours to figure out how to control the font size in the header. And I can't figure it out. I am sure the syntax is simple, if someone just shows it to me. But it is, again, TOTALLY and ABSURDELY impossible to read the documantation! So, finally; anybody who know how to change the font size in the header? Lars
