first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) - date aligned on the right - body of letter I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify it. I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to use it in a wrong way. I mean: - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or Lyx can be modified in many ways? -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want to do. TIA Renato
Re: first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, You want to use komascript2. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 You also want to look up how to modify the .lco files from koma. This is the local file which will determine different margins. This is not trivial to do and I found that is requires a great amount of tinkering to get exactly what I wanted. I am attaching a modified DIN.lco which is located somewhere on your computer. This really determines where everything is located on a page. I also found that I did have to use some ERT, particularly for the logos but also to get text at the very bottom of the page using a Post Scriptum. So to answer your questions... yes. You can use Lyx to get what you want. Chances are something exists to get what you want but bare in mind that this is highly customizable. If you want a different looking letter from the defaults, that will require some time and playing around to make work. The end result is fantastic though, particularly if you are doing multiple letters. All you have to do is format it once and you can make as many letters as you want. ~Ben On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) - date aligned on the right - body of letter I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify it. I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to use it in a wrong way. I mean: - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or Lyx can be modified in many ways? -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want to do. TIA Renato DINregular.lco Description: Binary data
first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) - date aligned on the right - body of letter I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify it. I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to use it in a wrong way. I mean: - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or Lyx can be modified in many ways? -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want to do. TIA Renato
Re: first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, You want to use komascript2. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 You also want to look up how to modify the .lco files from koma. This is the local file which will determine different margins. This is not trivial to do and I found that is requires a great amount of tinkering to get exactly what I wanted. I am attaching a modified DIN.lco which is located somewhere on your computer. This really determines where everything is located on a page. I also found that I did have to use some ERT, particularly for the logos but also to get text at the very bottom of the page using a Post Scriptum. So to answer your questions... yes. You can use Lyx to get what you want. Chances are something exists to get what you want but bare in mind that this is highly customizable. If you want a different looking letter from the defaults, that will require some time and playing around to make work. The end result is fantastic though, particularly if you are doing multiple letters. All you have to do is format it once and you can make as many letters as you want. ~Ben On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Renato Pontefice renato.pontef...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) - date aligned on the right - body of letter I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify it. I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to use it in a wrong way. I mean: - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or Lyx can be modified in many ways? -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want to do. TIA Renato DINregular.lco Description: Binary data
first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) - date aligned on the right - body of letter I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify it. I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to use it in a wrong way. I mean: - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or Lyx can be modified in many ways? -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want to do. TIA Renato
Re: first letter with Lyx: some questions
Hi, You want to use komascript2. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/KomaLetter2 You also want to look up how to modify the .lco files from koma. This is the "local" file which will determine different margins. This is not trivial to do and I found that is requires a great amount of tinkering to get exactly what I wanted. I am attaching a modified DIN.lco which is located somewhere on your computer. This really determines where everything is located on a page. I also found that I did have to use some ERT, particularly for the logos but also to get text at the very bottom of the page using a Post Scriptum. So to answer your questions... yes. You can use Lyx to get what you want. Chances are something exists to get what you want but bare in mind that this is highly customizable. If you want a different looking letter from the defaults, that will require some time and playing around to make work. The end result is fantastic though, particularly if you are doing multiple letters. All you have to do is format it once and you can make as many letters as you want. ~Ben On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Renato Pontefice < renato.pontef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to use Lyx, for my first document. > what I need to do is a simple letter, but I need: > - kind of letterhead, I mean: logo (image on the top left of the letter) > - footer (a table with 3 cells containing text) > > - date aligned on the right > - body of letter > > I've try to use Kaoma and letter (.lyx) > I've seen that I can see the latex source, but I don't know how to modify > it. > > I'm wondering if, is this the right way to use lyx, or if I'm trying to > use it in a wrong way. I mean: > - Do I'm trying to do something that I can do just with LaTeX editor? Or > Lyx can be modified in many ways? > > -Finally, I'm wondering if do already exist somethings that do what I want > to do. > > TIA > > Renato > DINregular.lco Description: Binary data
