TriKri wrote:
>> 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?
You have some options:
-- Pressing Ctrl-Enter you can write more lines without exits the layout:
E.g: Author then Ctrl-Enter
University name then Ctrl-Enter
Location
-- You can try other layouts, e.g. "Editors" ; this is available if you choose
the "report (koma.script)" document class.
>> As standard text? In that case I also haven't found any way to
center the text.
>> I would also like to be able to format the text more. Running text
for example,
>> is it even possible to center it? Or to make it bigger or with another font?
>> Can I make custom text styles? How do I choose if the paragraphs are going
>> to be justified or not, or whether a new paragraph is going to be marked by
>> indenting the first line or making an empty line before it?
All that is possible. I suggest you have a look at help docs and/or
explore the toolbar buttons. All is explained there.
Ignacio
PD Perhaps it would be easier writing directly on LyX...