Phillip,
PITA alert: If you copy the template .lyx file someplace and edit the
copy, you need to do one of the following:
a. delete the image and bibliography stuff; or
b. copy the image file and the two .bib files to the same location as
the copy you are editing; or
c. replace the references to them with absolute paths (pointing to
their location, presumably in the MiKTeX directory you made for the
style stuff).
Phillip Ferguson wrote:
I found some teething issue with this template that I thought would be wise
to post in the same thread than start another.
Firstly is the authors preamble:
I am having trouble compiling this because if a change anything it complains
there is no \begin{} etc.
I changed the authors on my copy (in the preamble) successfully. You'll
need to be more specific as to what changes you are making.
Secondly(and more importantly) as I have 3 authors of my paper I can just
substitute the names and all is well.
The template is specifically set up for two authors from institution A
and a third from institution B. Your paper matches that?
However the text does not abide by the
margins for the document. Since I have very little knowledge of Latex I am
lost here. Is there a command I can use to constrain the width of the
authors to be in line with the columns or at least the margins?
Drop a co-author? Convince them to use shorter names? Use first/middle
initials?
It will be difficult to do what you want without offending the
conference's Style Police. You can try the following: in the preamble,
change
My Name Is Too Long
to
\parbox{2.5in}{My Name Is Too Long}
(fiddle with the 2.5in to get an appropriate width). This will throw
that author's entry out of whack with the others, though, unless you put
everyone in parboxes with an equal number of lines.
Also note that the tilde (~) used in names in the template is an
unbreakable space. If you don't want someone's name getting hyphenated,
you probably want to change the tildes to ordinary spaces, so that LaTeX
can break the line there.
You might also be able to shrink the font for the names, but I'm pretty
certain that would call down the wrath of the Style Police upon you.
Thirdly can I ask if there is anyway to keep figures and tables (especially
tables) from going over the column margins?
Split them into more tables with fewer columns each?
If you have individual columns that are particularly wide, assign them a
fixed width. That will allow LaTeX to wrap lines in those columns.
The only other approaches I know are to shrink the font in the table or
to put the table in a resizeable float (there was a tip about the latter
on the list a few months back). Again, that might or might not fly with
the Style Police.
Fourthly I am having major headaches forcing lyx to position diagrams and
tables and equations at the tops of pages. Yes I know there is a command in
the float properties but sometimes it is just plainly ignored. Is there a
rule that float position is governed by?
Beats me. I don't think I've ever had the position-at-top option fail me.
/Paul
