On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 02:00:51 PM Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/13/2011 11:46 AM, Ignacio Martinez wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this > > <http://people.virginia.edu/%7Eim5j/cover.pdf>? > > Yes, because you can make it look that way using some LaTeX. Have a > look at one of the thesis classes and look, in particular, at the > \maketitle command and what it does. You can modify it for your > purposes. > > That said, as Steve Litt will also say if he doesn't read this > message first, if this is just a one-time thing, then don't mess > with LaTeX to do the cover. Just do it in whatever, export it to > PDF, and use something like pdftk to add it at the end.
:-) That's just sooooo 2006. :-) By 2008 I knew how to do a cover in Inkscape and place it as the first page of an eBook. Here's my latest cover: http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/images/larry_cover_pro_fullsize.png To put that on the first page I do something like this: ====================== \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash frontmatter \backslash thispagestyle{empty} \backslash setcounter{page}{1} \backslash enlargethispage{1.90in}~ \backslash \backslash [-5.6in] \backslash leftskip -2.07in \backslash hfill \backslash vfill \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename images/larry_cover_pro_centuryschool.svg lyxscale 33 \end_inset \begin_inset Newpage clearpage \end_inset \end_layout ====================== What Ignacio wants to do isn't nearly that complex. He can do it with a tiny bit of ERT, which is what I recommend for all frontmatters. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
