Thanks Richard and Steve, I will definitely take a look at your recommendations. BTW steve, your Quickstart guide already helped me a few times before. Thanks for making those easy to read.
Regards, Jeoffrey --- Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeoffrey Young wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I really like how lyx structures my documents > > just right! However, sometimes I want it to > structure > > it in a different way. The cover page is an > example. > > So I was wondering if anyone here can suggest a > good > > book or website where I can learn how to create my > own > > latex class or modify the existing classes that > came > > with lyx. I have a background in programming so > that > > kind of text is not a problem for me. > Unfortunately, > > when I opened a few lyx classes (i.e. article.cls) > it > > looked more like gibberish than C++. > > > LaTeX is very much its own beast. The syntax takes > some getting used to. > But it is comprehensible. > > The best reference, in my experience, is the /Guide > to LaTeX/, by Kopka > and Daly. The /locus classicus/ is /LaTeX: A > Document Preparation > System/, by Leslie Lamport, the author of LaTeX, but > it is less > comprehensive. That said, a lot of customization can > be done more easily > with LaTeX packages. For example, if you want to > customize the section > titles, you can use titlesec. It's easier and more > portable than > modifying the class file. The best guide to these is > /The LaTeX > Companion/, by Mittelbach and Goosens. And if you > really want to > understand LaTeX, then you need to understand TeX > itself. Here, the > reference is /The TeX Book/, which is online here: > > http://net.ytu.edu.cn/share/%D7%CA%C1%CF/texbook.pdf > You should also have a fair bit of documentation on > your local system. > If not, download it from here: > > http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-tar.html > And, as always, google is your friend. > > Please also recommend a good latex class > editing > > tool --> maybe with preview and appropriate > > highlighting... Thanks a lot guys. > > > This depends on your platform. On Linux, there is > the excellent kile. > Any good LaTeX editor will provide syntax > highlighting, though. > > Richard > > -- > ================================================================== > Richard G Heck, Jr > Professor of Philosophy > Brown University > http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ > ================================================================== > Get my public key from > http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de > Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC > Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and > GnuPG at: > http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
