"Peter Hutnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The sort of thing I am looking for is a title page, a novel-style (i.e.
> flat) table of contents, and a hierarchy like:
> 
> Book
>    Part
>       Chapter
>          Section (where a section would normally be separated by "***".)

I've written novels with LyX (see www.18james.com/writing.html).  The
book class does fine.  The real problem is that unless you're
self-publishing -- with which I have no experience -- you have to face
the fact that trade publishers are not interested in any output from
LyX.  They want the manuscript in ms-word, not in LaTeX, LyX, PDF, or
Postscript.  They'll accept ascii text, but if you have foreign
language or special characters in your text, they're lost in an ascii
version.

I can't stand PC word-processors, so I stick with LyX.  But the
beautiful typesetting ability of the LaTeX engine is lost, as I end
submitting hard-copy.
-- 

Ronald Florence                         www.18james.com

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