LyX ⇒ Hello -- looking to improve lyx wrangling skills

[lrp]

I'm a writer exploring independent publication of several books using lyx.

My week-long love-affair with lyx has entered the reality check phase -- can't get drop caps to work, need custom page header, not sure how to typeset frontmatter.

Lyx docs are great, but spotty on the issues that concern me. Posted question re: drop caps on lyx forum--no response.

It looks now like I need to dig under the hood of lyx and into the mysteries of latex to solve my few pesky problems.

Hope this a few good folks on this group can point the way.

All the best,

LRP

[meho_r]

Hi,

For drop caps, check your other post. Regarding frontmatter, you can find infos on this forum, search a little I would recommend you to give memoir class a try, which has a great documentation in which you can find an answer to creating custom headers too (although you can always use fancyhdr package for that purpose; check fancyhdr documentation). In LyX, you may have to use Evil Red Text (ERT box) to set custom commands, but it'll be no problem. Hope this helps at least a little.

And welcome to the forum