[geeks] #%*@$ LaTex!

[Kris Kirby]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> \pagestyle{empty}
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \oddsidemargin  0.0in
> \evensidemargin 0.0in
> \textwidth      6.5in
> \headheight     0.0in
> \topmargin      0.0in
> \textheight=9.0in
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> \begin {document}
> \setlength{\parindent}{0.5in}
> \setlength{\parskip}{1ex plus 0.5ex minus 0.2ex}
> \setlength{\baselineskip}{5ex}
>
> is how the start of must of my documents go.  Err, I don't use lyx though,
> so I don't know what documentclass lyx is using, or if the other stuff will
> work with classes other than the article class.  Also, one of those lines
> (I forget which) turns on double spacing.  I think it is probably the one
> that reads:


YES! It works. I imported the text into LyX as LaTeX, then looked at the
resulting document.

\begin_preamble

and

\end_preamble

are nearly the only differences. 8-(

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