It would appear that on Feb 4, David Mertens did say:
>
> Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list.
>
I had wondered about that extra copy... Probably my fault. I keep
forgetting which mailing lists need me to NOT include "me" on the Reply-To:
and which ones rewrite it to point at the list. <sigh!> Actually if I got
a reply worth responding to that wasn't obviously intended as a private
reply, which I couldn't find on the list id have probably have started a
reply with full quoting, then pasted it's contents into a reply to the
thread... Then as long as I remember which reply to cancel... ;-7
>
> Did you try using a vertical fill via Insert->Formatting->Vertical Space,
> select Vertical Fill? This seemed to work for me:
>
> [ some text at top, at least a protected space ]
> ^
> |
> Vertical Fill
> |
>
> [ text at bottom of page ]
>
No I didn't... But if vertical fill is designed to automatically expand
and or contract as necessary to keep the remaining text before a page
break at the bottom of the page. without changing where that next page
break occurs then it's exactly what I was looking for. And probably a
good reason why I should once again reread the documents found under
LyX->help. Cause now that you mention it I think I have a ghost of a
memory of reading about something like this way back when...
It would appear that on Feb 4, Steve Litt did say:
>
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 04:21:26 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
>
> >
> > All I need to figure out now is: how to suppress the printing of any
> > page number on pages I don't want numbered???
>
> \thispagestyle{empty}
>
> >
> > Well that and how to get Lyx to position the "by authorname" & copyright
> > information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the
> > top of one???
>
> THIS, my friend, is why I always ERT fine tune my frontmatter. By the time
> you
> end up trying to outsmart your document class in order to get the frontmatter
> the way you want your frontmatter to look, it's easier to do the whole thing
> in ERT. Not only that, but a lot of people decide on a document class based
> on what they want the frontmatter to look like, and then suffer the
> consequences in the mainmatter.
Yup. Does that ever ring true... Now that I know how to separate
"front", "main", and if called for, "back" "matter" My only prob will
be in figuring out what to put in the gosh durned ERT boxes... Course,
this thread has given me several priceless clues on that... <thank you
ALL!>
Though in this case it looks like the functionality I was looking for
can be had internally with that " Vertical Fill" insert function.
> >
> > (and/or how to get it to use an arbitrary {hard coded?} date,
>
> \date{January 25, 2525}
>
This works for me... I'd just have to remember to update it if there
was a revision.
> Joe --- You've learned a lot. When you've gotten it all, I suggest you write
> a
> document about what you learned and post its URL here so we can all use it.
> The questions you ask pop up over and over again, and your in-the-trenches
> documentation would be very helpful to those who come after you.
Well I might do something like that sometime... But the only place I've
got to put such a thing is my isp provided ("personal web" / "online data
storage") space. And while I know how to post a link to that, it's not
n the other hand if the lyx mailing list has a web archive where a url
of a particular message could be referenced then perhaps I could
compose something of the kind as a reply to this thread. If I kept it
all in plain text, it wouldn't take that much band width... What do
you think?
It would appear that on Feb 5, Yago did say:
> > Plus how to suppress the date of output generation, from the title
> > page???
>
> \date{}
>
Now there's an elegantly brutal solution... I LIKE it!
Hmmmnn I'll have to experiment if something like this in the
frontmatter will affect something that inserts the current date
someplace in the mainmatter... Like perhaps an ERT \today
> > (and/or how to get it to use an arbitrary {hard coded?} date, or perhaps
> > even the date the .lyx file was last changed,instead...)
>
> isodate package.
>
Tell me more... I just did a google for "lyx isodate package" but it
didn't turn up anything that sounded like what I'm hoping you mean...
That is that there is a package that will let me tell lyx or latex to
extract the date (and time? from the lyx file's last modification time
stamp??? I'd be glad they did such a thing. Though I suspect it's likely
more work to figure out than is worth it to me.
Well I'd like to thank All of you for the kind help you've all shown
me. The info in this one thread is priceless.
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