This is going to get a little messy. Could be LaTeX-related but I can’t figure out how to untangle the ERT I’m trying from the LyX file.
I’m using Article (Standard Class) with a non-default font in two-column mode. I would like a nice one-column abstract that has a little wider margins than the main body. The abstract package http://mirror.las.iastate.edu/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/abstract/abstract.pdf promises to do the job. I’ve put the \usepackage{abstract} line in the LaTeX preamble under Document->Settings. Then, trying to mimic the simple example at the above link, I inserted the ERT as such: \twocolumn[ \maketitle \begin{onecolabstract} Abstract text... \end{onecolabstract} ] \saythanks Things go wrong. (1) The title, author, and date are correctly placed on the first page, along with a footnote associate with the author’s name—footnote contains e-mail address etc. There is nothing else on this first page! It is mostly white space. On the second page the abstract (one column, inset margins, smaller font, “Abstract” title, everything nice) correctly appears, followed by the body of the paper in two columns as expected. But (2) the same “author” footnote appears at the bottom of the first column of this second page. I looked at the LaTeX export and saw a snippet that looks like this: \maketitle \twocolumn[ \maketitle \begin{onecolabstract} Abstract text... \end{onecolabstract} ] \saythanks The \maketitle appears twice. If I delete the second one, the one inside the twocolumn command that I inserted from LyX as ERT, nothing changes. However, if I put that back in and delete the first \maketitle, _the one inserted into the LaTeX by LyX_, I get a properly rendered document. So this is why I’m posting to this list. How do I prevent LyX from inserting the first \maketitle? Or am I misusing this package? <Most likely> Jerry
