coverslyx
I am a beginner of latex and I use lyx as my tool. I finished my document with Lyx and found a cover page template from here(the first template in the page)
I copied the code into my lyx file in the beginning of the page. As instructions says I copied the title page code and then the \titleGP code snippet. But it says it is wrong in compile time. Why is that?
First of all, you can encolose the title page in a titlepage environment so the document class deals with it in a proper way.
Then you can set the distances between text blocks in a relative way to each other (by using the \stretch command), so if you are required to change the paper size (university policies with respect to thesis formatting can be very annoying) they still keep the same proportion on the page.
You can also define picture sizes relative to document parameters, by defining lengths as a number multiplying predefined constants, say defining width as a multiple of \textwidth. Be sure to use a vectorial picture so it does not suffer loss of quality due to resizing (and also makes for smaller file sizes). You can find the UNICAMP logo in several formats here (Beware: the eps version has some gibberish code written after the postscript code. Get rid of it otherwise LaTeX won't like it).
You can fine-tune the margins further by using commands from the geometry package.
So a full example of a titlepage would be
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
...
\begin{titlepage}
\includegraphics[width=.1\textwidth]{your-university-logo}
\centering
\vspace{\stretch{1}}
\Large{Your Name}
\vspace{\stretch{1}}
\LARGE{\textbf{Your Thesis Title}}
\vspace{\stretch{2}}
\Large{Your City\\Date}
\end{titlepage}
This happens because you've inserted the cover page as part of the title, it should be before the title, and the style should be Standard. To fix this, place the cursor between the included PDF and the title, and hit enter to add a paragraph break between them. Then move the cursor to the paragraph containing the inserted PDF, and select Standard from the style drop-down menu in the top left.
Best Answer
As long as you copy-paste to the correct place, this should work fine.
First, go to Document --> Settings --> LaTeX preamble and paste in everything from the preamble of that template. That means everything between, but not including,
\documentclass{book}and\begin{document}. (Lines 29 to 64 in the template)Second, exit the document settings, add an ERT (Insert --> TeX code, or Ctrl + L) at the start of your document, and type
\thispagestyle{empty}\titleGPin this.