Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hello, My name is Nate Mullins and I am a graduate student at the University of Utah. I have written my Master's thesis in Lyx but am experiencing some formatting issues that neither my academic advisor nor I have been able to resolve: 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b) need to enlarge the font from Default to Large. 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple pages or b) make the columns narrower? 3. Page bottom margins are set to 1 but on some pages, the text goes below 1 (to about 0.75). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug. 4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently. 5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break? 6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change it. 7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them. 8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way to do this. I will greatly appreciate any help. Regards, Nate
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
I'm not sure, I think this is the default for Book(koma-script).
Generally Book (koma-script) is the best choice for Theses.
2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make
the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would
you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple
pages or b) make the columns narrower?
How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size?
3. Page bottom margins are set to 1 but on some pages, the text goes
below 1 (to about 0.75). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug.
I am not sure why this is happening, but...
By default, LaTeX puts the header and footer inside the margins. For
some reason LyX doesn't let you set the head or foot options in
the geometry package or the includehead and includefoot options. I
have manually added:
\usepackage[a4paper,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,inner=2.5cm,outer=2cm,foot=1cm,head=1cm,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
to my Layout-Document-preamble. This may help. (change the margins
to what you want ofcourse, i.e. replace some of the 2cm with 1in).
4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
what is this?
5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break
needs to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break?
I am using 1.3.7, which doesn't give these options. I would say just
use which ever looks right when you output pdf.
6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text
(not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to
change it.
I don't know, I just use the defaults.
7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section
(or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily
place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
This sounds like something that LaTeX does automatically because it
thinks it is in some sense correct.
You can manually remove a bit of space by starting a Evil Red Text
(i.e. press Cntl-L).
in this ERT, you can type
\vspace{-2em}
this will remove vertical space equal to twice the height of the M character.
8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page
heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double
space but see no way to do this.
I use the default, which LaTeX thinks is correct. If it is a
requirement to remove this text... it would be nice if universities
gave sample .tex files demonstrating the approved formatting.
Perhaps other people will be able to help you more.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hi, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple pages or b) make the columns narrower? How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size? I had this problem as well. It's covered in the User's Manual under section 4.4.4 (the chapter on tables). Cheers JP -- John Pye School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia t +61 2 9385 5127 f +61 2 9663 1222 mailto:john.pye_AT_student_DOT_unsw.edu.au http://pye.dyndns.org/
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
The answers to a lot of these questions can be found in /The LaTeX
Companion/ or /A Guide to LaTeX/. All of these are LaTeX issues and have
nothing much to do with Lyx. How LaTeX typesets things is controlled by
the class and style files you load, and it uses complicated algorithms
to decide where to put things and how to format pages. To change the
kinds of things you want to change, you will need either to load
packages that allow you to do it, in such cases as there are such
packages, or else to redefine the LaTeX commands that control
formatting. That is to say: You'll have to learn some LaTeX to do this.
Lyx won't do it, because it doesn't provide access to every package that
is available for LaTeX, let alone to LaTeX internals.
1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
Try the tocloft package. That will probably do what you need. If not,
you'll need to redefine commands like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which
are in whatever class file you are using, book.cls, or whatever.
4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
Try resetting \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty, e.g.:
\widowpenalty = 1000
\clubpenalty = 1000
That should go in the preamble.
5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs
to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break?
Try \clearpage. Otherwise, just \pagebreak should do.
6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not
the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change
it.
In book.cls, this is controlled by setting the length \belowcaptionskip,
if I understand what you're asking. So you could reset it in your
preamble, e.g.: \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{1ex}.
7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or
subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place
triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
You can try the titlesec package. Otherwise, you will need to redefine
\section and \subsection. Look at the class file in question (e.g.,
book.cls) to see what the old definitions are. These are all defined in
terms of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not presently remembering exactly how this
command works, but I believe the space before the heading is controlled
by the fourth argument, which is a rubber length: LaTeX is allowed to
stretch or shrink the space. You could try just:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{-2.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{2ex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@}%
{-2.25ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{1.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] .2ex}%
{\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
to make the space smaller. These are just modified from the book.cls
definition. If you're not using book.cls, then you won't want these, but
they might work as a guide.
8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and
the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way
to do this.
The References heading is probably produced as a \chapter*. That's
certainly how it's done in book.cls. So you'll either need to redefine
\chapter, though you may not want to do so for the entire document (you
could do so right before yo do the bibliography, though), or else you'll
need to redefine the thebibliography environment not to use \chapter*.
As you'll see if you look at book.cls, though, that would not be
entirely easy, since the definition of \chapter is very complex.
If you're using the Koma-script book format, then you just need to
redefine \chapterheadendvskip right before creating the bibliography.
Richard
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Brown University
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Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hello, My name is Nate Mullins and I am a graduate student at the University of Utah. I have written my Master's thesis in Lyx but am experiencing some formatting issues that neither my academic advisor nor I have been able to resolve: 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b) need to enlarge the font from Default to Large. 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple pages or b) make the columns narrower? 3. Page bottom margins are set to 1 but on some pages, the text goes below 1 (to about 0.75). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug. 4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently. 5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break? 6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change it. 7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them. 8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way to do this. I will greatly appreciate any help. Regards, Nate
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
I'm not sure, I think this is the default for Book(koma-script).
Generally Book (koma-script) is the best choice for Theses.
2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make
the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would
you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple
pages or b) make the columns narrower?
How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size?
3. Page bottom margins are set to 1 but on some pages, the text goes
below 1 (to about 0.75). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug.
I am not sure why this is happening, but...
By default, LaTeX puts the header and footer inside the margins. For
some reason LyX doesn't let you set the head or foot options in
the geometry package or the includehead and includefoot options. I
have manually added:
\usepackage[a4paper,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,inner=2.5cm,outer=2cm,foot=1cm,head=1cm,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
to my Layout-Document-preamble. This may help. (change the margins
to what you want ofcourse, i.e. replace some of the 2cm with 1in).
4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
what is this?
5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break
needs to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break?
I am using 1.3.7, which doesn't give these options. I would say just
use which ever looks right when you output pdf.
6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text
(not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to
change it.
I don't know, I just use the defaults.
7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section
(or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily
place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
This sounds like something that LaTeX does automatically because it
thinks it is in some sense correct.
You can manually remove a bit of space by starting a Evil Red Text
(i.e. press Cntl-L).
in this ERT, you can type
\vspace{-2em}
this will remove vertical space equal to twice the height of the M character.
8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page
heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double
space but see no way to do this.
I use the default, which LaTeX thinks is correct. If it is a
requirement to remove this text... it would be nice if universities
gave sample .tex files demonstrating the approved formatting.
Perhaps other people will be able to help you more.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hi, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple pages or b) make the columns narrower? How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size? I had this problem as well. It's covered in the User's Manual under section 4.4.4 (the chapter on tables). Cheers JP -- John Pye School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia t +61 2 9385 5127 f +61 2 9663 1222 mailto:john.pye_AT_student_DOT_unsw.edu.au http://pye.dyndns.org/
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
The answers to a lot of these questions can be found in /The LaTeX
Companion/ or /A Guide to LaTeX/. All of these are LaTeX issues and have
nothing much to do with Lyx. How LaTeX typesets things is controlled by
the class and style files you load, and it uses complicated algorithms
to decide where to put things and how to format pages. To change the
kinds of things you want to change, you will need either to load
packages that allow you to do it, in such cases as there are such
packages, or else to redefine the LaTeX commands that control
formatting. That is to say: You'll have to learn some LaTeX to do this.
Lyx won't do it, because it doesn't provide access to every package that
is available for LaTeX, let alone to LaTeX internals.
1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
Try the tocloft package. That will probably do what you need. If not,
you'll need to redefine commands like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which
are in whatever class file you are using, book.cls, or whatever.
4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
Try resetting \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty, e.g.:
\widowpenalty = 1000
\clubpenalty = 1000
That should go in the preamble.
5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs
to be inserted, do I insert a top or bottom page break?
Try \clearpage. Otherwise, just \pagebreak should do.
6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not
the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change
it.
In book.cls, this is controlled by setting the length \belowcaptionskip,
if I understand what you're asking. So you could reset it in your
preamble, e.g.: \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{1ex}.
7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or
subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place
triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
You can try the titlesec package. Otherwise, you will need to redefine
\section and \subsection. Look at the class file in question (e.g.,
book.cls) to see what the old definitions are. These are all defined in
terms of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not presently remembering exactly how this
command works, but I believe the space before the heading is controlled
by the fourth argument, which is a rubber length: LaTeX is allowed to
stretch or shrink the space. You could try just:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{-2.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{2ex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@}%
{-2.25ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{1.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] .2ex}%
{\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
to make the space smaller. These are just modified from the book.cls
definition. If you're not using book.cls, then you won't want these, but
they might work as a guide.
8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and
the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way
to do this.
The References heading is probably produced as a \chapter*. That's
certainly how it's done in book.cls. So you'll either need to redefine
\chapter, though you may not want to do so for the entire document (you
could do so right before yo do the bibliography, though), or else you'll
need to redefine the thebibliography environment not to use \chapter*.
As you'll see if you look at book.cls, though, that would not be
entirely easy, since the definition of \chapter is very complex.
If you're using the Koma-script book format, then you just need to
redefine \chapterheadendvskip right before creating the bibliography.
Richard
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Professor of Philosophy
Brown University
http://bobjweil.com/heck/
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Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hello, My name is Nate Mullins and I am a graduate student at the University of Utah. I have written my Master's thesis in Lyx but am experiencing some formatting issues that neither my academic advisor nor I have been able to resolve: 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b) need to enlarge the font from Default to Large. 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple pages or b) make the columns narrower? 3. Page bottom margins are set to 1" but on some pages, the text goes below 1" (to about 0.75"). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug. 4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently. 5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs to be inserted, do I insert a "top" or "bottom" page break? 6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change it. 7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them. 8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way to do this. I will greatly appreciate any help. Regards, Nate
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
> double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
> need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
I'm not sure, I think this is the default for Book(koma-script).
Generally Book (koma-script) is the best choice for Theses.
> 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make
> the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would
> you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple
> pages or b) make the columns narrower?
How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size?
> 3. Page bottom margins are set to 1" but on some pages, the text goes
> below 1" (to about 0.75"). I don't understand why--seems to be a bug.
I am not sure why this is happening, but...
By default, LaTeX puts the header and footer inside the margins. For
some reason LyX doesn't let you set the "head" or "foot" options in
the geometry package or the "includehead" and "includefoot" options. I
have manually added:
\usepackage[a4paper,top=2cm,bottom=2cm,inner=2.5cm,outer=2cm,foot=1cm,head=1cm,includehead,includefoot]{geometry}
to my Layout->Document->preamble. This may help. (change the margins
to what you want ofcourse, i.e. replace some of the "2cm" with "1in").
> 4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
what is this?
> 5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break
> needs to be inserted, do I insert a "top" or "bottom" page break?
I am using 1.3.7, which doesn't give these options. I would say just
use which ever looks right when you output pdf.
> 6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text
> (not the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to
> change it.
I don't know, I just use the defaults.
> 7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section
> (or subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily
> place triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
This sounds like something that LaTeX does automatically because it
thinks it is in some sense correct.
You can manually remove a bit of space by starting a Evil Red Text
(i.e. press Cntl-L).
in this ERT, you can type
\vspace{-2em}
this will remove vertical space equal to twice the height of the "M" character.
> 8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page
> heading and the first listed reference. I need to change to double
> space but see no way to do this.
I use the default, which LaTeX thinks is correct. If it is a
requirement to remove this text... it would be nice if universities
gave sample .tex files demonstrating the approved formatting.
Perhaps other people will be able to help you more.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Master's Student
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
Hi, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On 3/14/06, Nate Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2. I have some tables that won't fit the page horizontally unless I make >> the font really small (too small). I need to enlarge the font, but would >> you suggest I a) orient the tables to Landscape and span them multiple >> pages or b) make the columns narrower? >> > > How can you make the columns narrower without reducing the font size? I had this problem as well. It's covered in the User's Manual under section 4.4.4 (the chapter on tables). Cheers JP -- John Pye School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering The University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052 Australia t +61 2 9385 5127 f +61 2 9663 1222 mailto:john.pye_AT_student_DOT_unsw.edu.au http://pye.dyndns.org/
Re: Thesis formatting problems, need help
The answers to a lot of these questions can be found in /The LaTeX
Companion/ or /A Guide to LaTeX/. All of these are LaTeX issues and have
nothing much to do with Lyx. How LaTeX typesets things is controlled by
the class and style files you load, and it uses complicated algorithms
to decide where to put things and how to format pages. To change the
kinds of things you want to change, you will need either to load
packages that allow you to do it, in such cases as there are such
packages, or else to redefine the LaTeX commands that control
formatting. That is to say: You'll have to learn some LaTeX to do this.
Lyx won't do it, because it doesn't provide access to every package that
is available for LaTeX, let alone to LaTeX internals.
> 1. How do I reformat the table of contents? Specifically, I a) need a
> double space inserted between the chapter title and section titles and b)
> need to enlarge the font from Default to Large.
>
Try the tocloft package. That will probably do what you need. If not,
you'll need to redefine commands like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
which
are in whatever class file you are using, book.cls, or whatever.
> 4. Widow/orphan control is not working consistently.
>
Try resetting \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty, e.g.:
\widowpenalty = 1000
\clubpenalty = 1000
That should go in the preamble.
> 5. How do I get a figure/graphic to start a new page? If a page break needs
> to be inserted, do I insert a "top" or "bottom" page break?
>
Try \clearpage. Otherwise, just \pagebreak should do.
> 6. How do I get Lyx to triple space between figures and subsequent text (not
> the caption)? Currently it is double spaced and I don't know how to change
> it.
>
In book.cls, this is controlled by setting the length \belowcaptionskip,
if I understand what you're asking. So you could reset it in your
preamble, e.g.: \setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{1ex}.
> 7. How do I eliminate the triple space between the end of one section (or
> subsection) and the next section heading? Lyx seems to arbitrarily place
> triple spaces here and there and I don't want them.
>
You can try the titlesec package. Otherwise, you will need to redefine
\section and \subsection. Look at the class file in question (e.g.,
book.cls) to see what the old definitions are. These are all defined in
terms of [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not presently remembering exactly how this
command works, but I believe the space before the heading is controlled
by the fourth argument, which is a "rubber length": LaTeX is allowed to
stretch or shrink the space. You could try just:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{-2.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{2ex [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@}%
{-2.25ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.5ex \minus -.2ex}%
{1.5ex [EMAIL PROTECTED] .2ex}%
{\normalfont\large\bfseries}}
to make the space smaller. These are just modified from the book.cls
definition. If you're not using book.cls, then you won't want these, but
they might work as a guide.
> 8. Currently there is a triple space between the References page heading and
> the first listed reference. I need to change to double space but see no way
> to do this.
>
The References heading is probably produced as a \chapter*. That's
certainly how it's done in book.cls. So you'll either need to redefine
\chapter, though you may not want to do so for the entire document (you
could do so right before yo do the bibliography, though), or else you'll
need to redefine the thebibliography environment not to use \chapter*.
As you'll see if you look at book.cls, though, that would not be
entirely easy, since the definition of \chapter is very complex.
If you're using the Koma-script book format, then you just need to
redefine \chapterheadendvskip right before creating the bibliography.
Richard
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Professor of Philosophy
Brown University
http://bobjweil.com/heck/
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