On 02/14/2012 07:01 AM, Eric Weir wrote:
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.
You just put them in as author and title, and fix the typography later.
One easy way to do it is just to copy the code that sets the title from
the document class, in this case scrartcl.cls, and modify it as you see
fit. Depending upon whether you have a title page or not, this is either
the \maketitle command or else the \@maketitle command.
Richard
