Hi Typhoon,

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:09 +1100, Typhoon wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:14:27 +0800
> "Louis A. Turk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi fellow lyx users,
> > 
> > I have the body of a book formatted beautifully with lyx using the
> > Memoir Class, but I'm having many problems formatting the front
> > matter. The first page is blank (is this normal?), the even numbered
> > folios are missing, and there is one too many pages between the front
> > matter and main body.
> > 
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UsingMemoirInLyX links to the following two
> > documents that are supposed to help, but for some reason I can't get
> > them to download. And I haven't been able to find them anywhere else.
> > 
> > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/public/lyx/memoir-titlepages.lyx
> > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/public/lyx/memoir-titlepages.pdf
> > 
> > Does anyone know of a different source for these documents?
> > 
> > Are there other sample documents or instructions available that show
> > how to format the front matter when using Memoir?
> 
> Hi Louis,
> There are discussions in the archives about this. Two schools of
> thought, but mine is to completely "handcraft" the front pages of a
> book whether using the Memoir class or the book class (never used Koma).
> 
> I'm attaching a template that I have worked on. It's not perfect, but
> the intention is that you replace a few variables in the front (like
> surname, etc) and it should build you a fairly nice frontmatter. 
> 
> The "adjustable" \newcommands are all at the top. (you
> will need to cut the \documentclass definition from the top for use with
> LyX.
> 
> As I say, it isn't completely finished, so you will want to check
> carefully if you decide to use it.
> 
> Again, there are two schools of though on this, and I haven't used a
> "pure" LyX approach to building the frontmatter in any recent version
> of LyX, so things might have improved.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan
> 
> > 
> > Louis
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

Thanks! I'm studying your code.

Louis


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