Thanks for the answer,
I fixed the TOC trouble with latex command \addcontentsline, that seems to
work. I thought that was not necessary in lyx, perhaps I'm wrong.
Setting the font at 10 makes a difference indeed, but it still is not good
at all.
Can I easily edit the dutch hyphenation file? Perhaps my edits could be
used as 'update' for others to use too.
grtz,
Bart
Op schreef Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net>:
On 08/05/2011 09:29 AM, bart deruyter wrote:
> 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.
>
Do these show up properly under the navigation menu? How about in the
outline?
You might also want to check under Document>Settings>Numbering & TOC.
> 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.
>
I'd check the margins, for one thing; the default ones may be too wide
for A5 paper. Also, you may want to reduce the font size. 10 point
should be right.
Hyphenation is entirely a LaTeX issue. Perhaps the hyphenation files for
Dutch just aren't very good. I do not know.
Richard
