Thanks Richard. Its coming out properly. I appreciate your help
Great weekend Shylock Muyengwa | PhD Candidate & Managing Editor [image: Description: Description: http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXAkOYtgovks1LZfC8VrfKeHNxFQKmzf7__-TvJlTLMhjPNR3I] Office 352.273.4751| Fax 352.392.2435|Home352.846.5459| Google 352.575.0160 Skype shylockmuyengwa P Before printing this e-mail think if it is necessary. On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net>wrote: >> >>> On 05/04/2012 03:38 PM, Shylock Muyengwa wrote: >>> >>> Dear Lyx Users >>> >>> I created a thesis template using a .cls file provided by our >>> University. I managed to add the new document class to Lyx. I typed up a >>> short example to illustrate the problem I am facing. If I type text and >>> insert a TOC, the TOC displays information appropriately. However, when I >>> add text above the above the TOC, it then displays the first page of the >>> thesis and the abstract (but asks me to define name, title, date)- See >>> attachment (with-text-above-toc). >>> >>> What's going on is this. If there's nothing before the TOC, > then \maketitle is not issued, so LaTeX does not try to produce a > titlepage. If there is, then it does, and then you see the errors you do, > because you haven't defined certain of the things you need to print the > title page properly. > > If you search for "Please define" in the cls file, you'll find the > commands you need. You can put these in the preamble, e.g.: > \SetFullName{Shylock Muyengwa} > \SetThesisType{Dissertation}{ > Etc. > > The "LyX way" to do it would be to add these to the layout file. Things > like this will work: > > Style FullName > LaTeXType command > LaTeXName SetFullName > LabelType static > LabelString "Full Name:" > LabelSep x > Margin First_Dynamic > InTitle 1 > Category FrontMatter > End > > Style ThesisType > CopyStyle FullName > LaTeXName SetThesisType > LabelString "ThesisType:" > End > > and so forth for the other commands you need. > > Richard > >
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