Help with LyX needed

[pkdawson]

Okay, I'm pretty much a newbie to LyX and LaTeX in general. I've read the LyX tutorial, but honestly I just don't have the time to read the huge amount of documentation that comes with LyX. My problem is fairly simple. I need to write a document with a title page that looks something like this:

[nahpets]

First off, I'd suggest avoiding Lyx... Use Kile instead (KDE Latex frontend). The code below is pretty ugly, but may do what you want with some tweaking.

[pkdawson]

[nahpets]

I don't think you need to make a whole new class just to format a title page. As I said, you can format it using regular Latxex like the \bigskip command etc. If you're going to have multiple title pages in the same document, you can create a custom command using "\newcommand".

From what I know, creating new CLS files is for advanced users, so if you're a newbie to Latex, this is really not an option. You should be able to use what's already there to do what you want. Also, try google to see if someone has already done what you want to do. I think that there's a high probability that you'll find some existing Latex code you can cut and paste.

[jdgill0]

Latex is considered to be a document processor not a word processor. Latex's purpose is to perform the document formatting for you. You do have predefined document classes or layouts, such as article, book, etc. The problem arises when you need a very customized looking document, then you are forced to do a lot of latex hacking yourself, such as presented by nahpets above.

LyX hides all the latex commands such as setting up a document's preamble, the part of the code that has such things as