Hi Rob,
I hope you're putting this technique in your new book!
Also, I hope you put it in your book in such a way that the reader can put
everything together as a single PDF. I would think that Scribus would be a
MUCH better way to construct the cover, title page and copyright page than
LyX. /* Litt ducks and runs */
SteveT
On Tuesday 30 March 2010 15:23:17 Rob Oakes wrote:
> I'm a big fan of putting title pages together in Scribus. It allows you
> to be anally particular about where things go, what fonts you want to
> use, etc. I also find that it's easier to use for layout work than
> OpenOffice. When you're done, you can export your masterpiece as a PDF
> and then include it in your frontmatter.
>
> For very finicky layouts (that only need to be done once), I much prefer
> to use a dedicated layout program over ERT. The downside, is,
> unfortunately that you won't get the automatic headers and footers
> unless you add the appropriate macros in your document preamble:
>
> \author{}
> \title{}
> ...
>
> On Tue, 2010-03-30 at 15:04 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > The way I do this type of thing is to construct the frontmatter,
> > including the cover, in LyX using ERT and custom environments. That's a
> > few hours of LaTeX ERT work to get it looking just how you want it to,
> > but I think it's worth it.
> >
> > A second way you can do it is to use pdftk to tack the Word-sourced front
> > pages onto the LyX sourced rest of the document, and of course set page
> > numbering in both so everything matches up.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > On Tuesday 30 March 2010 12:58:09 Sajjad wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > It has to be merged as a single pdf file and front front pages are in
> > > the Miicrosoft Office Word format.
> > >
> > > So after merging all the front and title pages to the main report , it
> > > must be compiled as a single pdf file.
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Sajjad
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:50 PM, rgheck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On 03/30/2010 11:53 AM, Sajjad wrote:
> > > >> Hello forum,
> > > >>
> > > >> I have written the thesis in a single .lyx file.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Now to comply with the university standard i have to include front
> > > >> page, the title page and then the main report that i have written.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Any hint how to do that from LyX interface ?
> > > >
> > > > What format do you have those pages in? Or is the question how to
> > > > create them?
> > > >
> > > > One option is to create them in OpenOffice or something, as these
> > > > often are supposed to have a very particular format. Then print them
> > > > and put them on the front. If you have to adjust page numbers in the
> > > > LyX file, that is fairly easy to do.
> > > >
> > > > rh
>
