On 2013-10-06, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> On 7/10/2013 4:49 a.m., Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 10/06/2013 07:33 AM, Mark Horton wrote:
>>> Hi Developers
>>> It would make navigation a lot easier for large documents if we had the
>>> the ability to generate a contents of Chapters at the start.
>>> Plus a more detailed contents page at the start of each Chapter.
...
> I've used the LaTeX minitoc package successfully with LyX for a large
> book (600 pages). It creates a table of contents for each chapter,
> inserted at the start of the chapter. I restricted the main TOC at the
> start of the book to section level, but each chapter TOC was to
> subsubsection level. Each chapter has \minitoc in ERT after the chapter
> heading, but that's all, so ERT use is minimal. The preamble to the
> master document (each chapter is a child document & has nothing in the
> preamble) has
> \usepackage[tight]{minitoc}
> \setcounter{minitocdepth}{3}
> \setlength{\mtcindent}{24pt}
> \renewcommand{\mtcfont}{\small\rm}
> \renewcommand{\mtcSfont}{\small\bf}
> \renewcommand{\mtcSSSfont}{\footnotesize\it}
> \renewcommand{\mtctitle}{}
> which shows the kind of tailoring to individual whims that is possible.
It should be fairly easy to create a LyX module to support the minitoc
package.
Günter
