Hi all,

I'm trying to typeset my novel, that I want to publish soon. I have started
using lyx because it hides most of the technical stuff, so I can concentrate
on the writing.

But I'm having quite some trouble to get things looking right, things I
thought were handled automatically.

First of all, my TOC remains empty. As I understood, I just had to do
'Insert -> list/TOC -> Table of contents. I do use the correct paragraph
types, Part, Chapter, section, subsection etc...  so I thought the TOC would
be generated automatically when viewing the pdf, but it does not.

Secondly, a novel is rarely printed on A4, and the company I'd like to ask
to print my book gives a discount on printing on A5 (printing on demand
service) so I thought changing the document setting page size from A4 to A5.
This obviously has a big influence on the flow of the text. My language is
Dutch, and hyphenation is horrible. I do have texlive-lang-dutch installed.
Also, words that can be split sometimes are not, which results in many, many
overfull \hbox (from LaTeX Log). The margins are not followed.

What can I do about these problems? I'm using Linux Mint11, if that extra
information can help.

grtz,

Bart
http://www.bartart3d.be/

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