Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.sf.net> writes:
>
> 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
>
>
Hi Richard Andrew and Günter
Thanks for your replies.
I found the "package" to do the job called Minitoc. Unfortunately being an
ignorant beginner in this field I don't know how to "Install it " and make
it work from Latex.
It appears to have no windows type executable or install files in the set I
have downloaded. Though I guess some of them may be some sort of macro
runable in Latex based software.
The installation "instructions" suggest were some files should go, but I
haven't found were all of them should go yet. Even if they were all located
it gives no indication as to what to do next.
Is there somewhere on the LyX site which gives some general guide to the
principles of installing such packages to use from Lyx? Or am I thinking
nonsense that won't happen for reasons I don't understand? Is the long
learning curve of Latex the only way forwards for me?
Best Regards
Mark :-)
