On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Hauke <hauke_st...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > i am new in lyx and use it currently for writing my thesis. i start using > lyx to avoid problems you may get writing long documents in word. first > impression and the sense behind it (i am not used to LateX) were awesome. > so i thought its more than worth trying something new. But not very far > after starting to write i have the first problem. a typical format problem > which i hoped to avoid using lyx. > as you can see in the attached screenshots, the headline of the subsection > 2.2 is taking too much space on the page in the pdf (dvi or how its > called). and i absolutely dont know why. > i choose all normal text to be 'standard'. the subsections are all > 'subsections' sections are 'sections' and so on. the table you can see i > defined to be 'list'. > funnywise, subsection 2.2 is the only one i can increase the deep (dont > know whats this exactly in english) but in word its comparable with > tabstop. dont know why i can do this there. > hope i described the problem well enough for you to understand (or at > least the screenshots help) and hope there is a easy failure to find. > > It looks like a hyphenation problem to me: Latex doesn't know how to split the last word in your section heading and pushes it off margin. Looking at the Latex log would tell you if this is the problem. But you can also try to add a couple of optional hyphens (Insert>>Formatting>>Hyphenation point, in the English version) in "SDS-Ganzzellextrakten" and see if the problem disappears
Cheers, Stefano > By the way: i am using mac os x and lyx version 2.0.2. > > hope you can help me! > thanks a lot and have a nice evening > Hauke > > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org