On 11/29/2011 08:10 PM, L Duperval wrote:
Hi,
I have a few questions abut creating a book so here goes:
- Whenever I create a new document to be included (I am currently
splitting what I've already written into smaller parts), i have to
reconfigure the document settings. Which means, if I'm not mistaken, that
if I change things after the fact, I will have to modify each child
document. Am I correct?
You shouldn't need to do this, so long as you open the child documents
AS children of the master. I.e., you open the master first, then open
the child from within it. Alternatively, you can set a "default master"
in each of the children. That opens the master first, then the children
as children.
- Along those same lines: how can I create new documents that use the
same settings as my main document, without changing the LyX defaults?
Create a template. A template is just a LyX document, saved to your
templates folder.
- When I change my font, the output looks like gibberish. Why is that?
What font are you trying to use? on what platform? etc, etc?
- I want to create chapter headings that contain no text and only a
centered number. How do I do that? If I don't put any text, the line
Chapter paragraph disappears from the LyX document.
Insert>TeX Code. Then insert nothing, or perhaps a pair of braces: {}.
- In many books, there are vertical spaces between paragraphs when a new
scene begins. If this happens at the top or the bottom of a page, the
space is replaced by a line. Is this possible with LyX?
What do you mean by a "scene"? Is this a novel? The answer is yes, you
can do almost anything in LyX, because you can do almost anything in
LaTeX. But to do it we need more info.
Another one: when exporting the book to text, the child chapters are not
included in the output. How can I fix that?
I think text export exports the individual files.
Richard
