Hi >first of all I really have to say this program is awesome. I am coming from a >completely >different area (Speech-Language Therapy), and a friend of mine has convinced >me to use >lyx for my Masterthesis and then later the phd (so I am not good in computers).
It is nice to hear that you enjoy LyX. >I am at the moment formatting my thesis, and I want to have it looking like a >thesis design >with the first page just being title and University, name and Date. If I >choose in the Document- >Setting-toolbar, article, it marks the first page, if I take book, it does >shift >and split all those things. I would love to have it looking like in the WORD >document which >I attached. How could I solve this problem, is there somewhere a tool choosing >thesis??? >Or anything else? The word-document disappeared along the way. The front matter (title,author, date, publisher etc) is decided by the document-class as you have found. To summarize: an article can not have chapters and collect all the front matter on the first page along with the text. An report or book will generate front-matter over several pages as you expect in a book, the main difference is that the book-class starts every new chapter on a new right-hand page. So based on this, you should choose an document-class to begin with. A report or book probably. Then there are a lot of different styles, but two of the more versatile is memoir and koma-script. Both can be changed quite easily, just have a look in their documentation: http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf (look for title page and front matter) These are supported in LyX and changed in the document setting. Steve Litt would probably suggest finger-painting the title page, and this has also some merit, but does demand some knowledge of LaTeX. However you may learn useful things by searching for his name in the LyX-mailinglist and take a stop by his webpage: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ >Another mayor problem, I have around 20 Questionnaires which I made former >for my study in Word, and I would like just to copy them over (as they have >powerpoint >graphs on them as well) without loosing all the formatting done former in the >appendix. >Is there any change how I can do this. This is how the questionnaires look >like. This disappeared along the way as well. Word and powerpoints are not really possible to salvage, sorry. Your best bet is to save them as pdf and add them to the your thesis by a tool like pdfpages. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/pdfpages.pdf Hopes this helps. Ingar
