On 2010-06-01, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 01 June 2010 11:35:33 Will wrote:
> It's my strong belief that the frontmatter of a large document should > be fine- tuned, finger-painted, ERT, etc. I wouldn't use the \maketitle > command at all, but instead would just put the right stuff where it > belongs. I believe that the frontmatter is typically a one-off affair > that needn't be consistent throughout, whereas the mainmatter must be > consistent throughout, which is why I use almost no ERT in the > mainmatter. YMMV. This holds for your book series, but for many scientific works (thesis, report, ...) the frontmatter is "standardized" by the organization - sometimes even as part of the document class. In these cases, I recommend either ERT or creating/adapting a LyX layout. Günter
