LyX ⇒ Couple of issues with writing my thesis

[maxiv]

Hi everyone,

i have a couple of questions, I'm working on my Bachelor-Thesis with LyX 1.6.9 right now.

1) How can I make the space between the text and the bottom and top of the page less?
2) How can I include my list of figures, list of tables in the list of contents? I read something about \liststotoc but when i put that in my document i only got an error
3) how can I change the numbering style for the sections?
for example i want to have:
A List of Tables
B List of Figures
1 Introduction
2 Main Section
3 Conclusion
C Appendix
D Literature


How can i do that?

I hope you guys understand what I mean with the various things...I'm using a German version of LyX so I'm not sure of the correct names for everything.

thank you!!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi maxiv!

Which class are you using? Which template?
Additionally, perhaps post your LyX file (without your text) here as attachment, to see all settings.

Regarding your questions:

1. Change the margins using LyX's settings, geometry package features or typearea settings, if you use a KOMA-Script class.
2. If you use a KOMA-Script class, set liststotoc or similar as class option or by \KOMAoption in the document preamble, with other classes you could use the tocbibind package.
3. Commands like \frontmatter, \mainmatter and \backmatter can help, depending on the document class, or commands such as \pagenumbering{Alph} and \pagenumbering{arabic} for page numbers and \renewcommand*{\thesection}{\Alph{section}} for alphabetical section numbering.

Stefan

[maxiv]

Hello Stefan_K!

Thank you very much for your answer. I know you're trying to help but somehow I'm not able to make use of the information you gave me Would you mind giving me a step-by-step instruction on what exactly to do? The file is in the attachment.

[maxiv]

Hope someone can help me on this, I'm really desperate here

[kaiserkarl13]

I would have a look at one of the many references listed on the Forum about resources for people new to LaTeX; these will give you a thorough explanation of many things you can do. My personal favorite when I was learning was "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX," but there are many others.

I'll try to answer a few of your questions:
(1) Margins are easily changed in LyX, as I recall, though as StefanK mentioned it helps to know the document class you are using. Since it's a bachelor's thesis, I'm guessing "article" is the one. Lengths like \topmargin are set automatically by the geometry package, which is how I'd recommend starting.

(2) Lists of figures should be inserted automatically by LyX, but if not (I don't use LyX, preferring to type my own LaTeX markup), the commands are \listoffigures and \listoftables. Tables of contents should be LyX-enabled as well, but that's \tableofcontents

(3) Numbering sections as letters requires commands like
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Alph{section}} % Letters
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}} % Capital Roman Numerals (use \roman for lower case)
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}} % Arabic numerals

You can reset the counters by \setcounter{section}{1} or the like. They are often reset by the \backmatter and \frontmatter commands, however, so if you're using the report class I'd give that a try first.

[meho_r]

Here are couple of things:

1. Avoid using letters for "numbering" parts like LOF, LOT, TOC, Preface etc. Just leave them unnumbered.

2. To change counter to Uppercase letters for the last part of your document, you can use appendix (Document > Start Appendix Here).

3. As Stefan suggested, load tocbibind package in the Preamble (Document > Settings > LaTeX preamble):

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\usepackage{tocbibind}

That should be enough to get LOT and LOF included in TOC.

Here's your file with couple of notes in it.