On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:51:19 -0500, Richard Heck wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah. OK, I'll try to figure that one out.
>> - 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.
>
D'oh!
>> - 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?
>
Linux, LyX 2.0.0. Trying to use New Century Schoolbook, for example.
Hmm, it seems to be a DVI problem. When I look at the same document using
the PDF output, it looks fine. OK, I won't worry about this one.
> Insert>TeX Code. Then insert nothing, or perhaps a pair of braces: {}.
>
OK, that was what I reverted to but I was hoping for something more
elegant.
>> - 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?
Yes. In certain instances, I want to create a vertical spacing, that
changes to a line (or three stars or whatever is available) when it is
the last thing at the bottom of a page or at the top of a page. I was
hoping that I wouldn't have to use some custom TeX code... :)
>> 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.
>
Ugh! That's the answer I *didn't* want to hear...
Thanks,
L
