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by bindigit1
Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:26 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Long chapter titles - how?
Replies: 1
Views: 1713

Long chapter titles - how?

I am using the Book document class and some of my Chapters have a really long title, e.g.
Design & Implementation <ragged line break here>
Phase One: Building the architecture

If I select a headings style, to show something more than the page number on the header, of course it end up out of the ...
by bindigit1
Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:11 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Really long table? Is it possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 2285

Re: Really long table? Is it possible?

Yes, you are right. In fact, I had the longtable option activated, but I had put the table in a float - and float always have to appear on a single page.
by bindigit1
Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Really long table? Is it possible?
Replies: 2
Views: 2285

Really long table? Is it possible?

Well, as I need to add some experimental results in my dissertation, I ended with a table of 76 rows and 7 columns of arithmetical data. The final pdf output looks really messy as you might suspect!
Can I do something to automatically separate the table at the end of the page and continue to the ...
by bindigit1
Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:26 pm
Forum: LyX
Topic: Bypass default settings for frontmatter
Replies: 1
Views: 1689

Bypass default settings for frontmatter

I am trying to create the title page of my dissertation in Lyx and the problem is that I need something like this for the title page:

<Title>

<Name>

A dissertation presented in part fulfillment of the requirements blah blah blah...

<Date>

(I am currently using the book document class). I cannot ...
by bindigit1
Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:54 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Modify table of Contents content
Replies: 4
Views: 9990

Re: Modify table of Contents content

Thank you very much!
by bindigit1
Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:37 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Modify table of Contents content
Replies: 4
Views: 9990

Re: Modify table of Contents content

Thank you. It works perfectly for aknowledgements and abstract. However, for table of contents, if I put the Tex line you gave just before the Table of contents, it numbers the previous page as the first page of TOC (similarly, it numbers one page after the end of TOC, if I put it at the end - I do ...
by bindigit1
Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:23 am
Forum: Page Layout
Topic: Modify table of Contents content
Replies: 4
Views: 9990

Modify table of Contents content

I know that the title sounds like a vicious circle, but here is a problem I have while writing my dissertation: I want the numbering of the TOC to look like this:

Acknowledgements iii
Abstract v
Contents vii
1 Introduction 1
2 Survey 6


etc.
I have successfully changed the numbering of pages from ...