On Feb 13, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never > apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through > styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, > subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel > free to apply appearances directly, and DO NOT use the document class's > facilities for title, author, etc, and just write them with proper > appearances and spacing.
Advice well-taken, Steve. On both counts--using styles and front matter. Your comment on the latter may be helpful to me. First, I've been off-and-on getting started with LyX for some time, now. Second, I've committed to the KOMA-Script document class, for now the article class. Third, I don't like what it does with the title and author information--huge bold title and huge author fonting centered. I want the first to be only slightly larger font size than body text and author the same size as body text, both flush-left, that I am less adamant about the latter. Am I correct in understand you that I can just skip using the title and author environments and write and format the as if body text? Recently I tried formatting a title using the section environment and it would not compile to pdf without the title and author data. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA [email protected] "Style is truth." - Ray Bradbury
