On 3/6/08, TriKri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since I'm writing a report, the top level branches in the document are
> chapters. But it shows like "Chapter 1", then a new line, the "Introduction"
> (say my first chapter is intro). Instead I want it to be "1 Introduction".
> And a section, "1.1 The first section", etc. How do I fix that?
Try to use "Chapter*" (note the asterisk) from the combobox.
>
> My next question is about the page numbers. At the title page and at the
> abstract page there is no page numbers. On the content page on the other
> hand there is, and it is 2. 2? Why?
Try \setcounter{page}{-1} in the preamble. Experiment with different
numbers (say, "0") so as to suit your document.
> My third question is about formatting the text. On the title page, I write
> the title, the author (which is my name), then I also want to write the name
> of my university, its location and finally the date of today. All this is
> going to be on separate rows. I can only find title, author, and date in the
> scroll down bar, but not the rest. How do I enter those two?
I am afraid you'll need to pass through ERT, that is TeX code. You
might find this example [1] useful.
> Then I also have a question about the chapter linking in the generated pdf
> file. Is it possible to make the chapters in the table of content link to
> the places in the document where the chapters are located? This is not as
> important though, just a cool feature! B-)
Check the wiki for this. I used it once, but don't remember what did
the trick. This [2] wiki page should be of interest. Also try the
Unsorted FAQs.
Hope this is of help,
Liviu
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation
[2] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF
