[Tex/LaTex] Template for Wedding Order of Service

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I'm trying furiously to design an Order of Service for a wedding in Latex (wedding is tomorrow…lol). I'm also using Lyx to hopefully speed things up.

First off, I can't seem to find a suitable document class, or any example templates online.

The closest I found was this guy:

http://boyinthebands.com/archives/feature-set-for-latex-order-of-worship-project/

who talks about doing it – but it seems he never got around to actually doing it in Latex.

Any ideas of a class/template that would work? Any suggestions at all would be great. (Right now I'm just using article.cls…)

An idea of what's on an Order of Service:

http://docs-eu.livesiteadmin.com/bf230ef6-82c4-403d-830a-ec9be6b38e19/wedding-order-of-service-template.pdf

For ornamental fonts, I was thinking of using adforn or fourier-orns – however, I have no idea to do this from within Lyx?

Even the title I'm struggling with…lol. In Latex, I'd use \ to separate – in Lyx, Alt-Return does the same. However, then the lines of the title are too close. I tried changing the line spacing to double, however, it still appears to render exactly the same, with the lines too close:

\begin{doublespace}

\title{The Marriage of\\
Foo Bar\\
to\\
Foo Bar}
\end{doublespace}

\maketitle

Finally, for the songs, I'd need something like:'

Name of song..........Composer/Artist

The Composer/Artist should be right-aligned, and there should be an appropriate number of "…" separating – what's the easiest way to achieve that in Lyx/Latex? I don't even know what the above is called, typesetting wise, so I couldn't Google it.

Cheers,
Victor

Best Answer

You can use e.g. \\[1cm] to add more space when using \\. I guess the doublespace environment doesn't do anything because \title doesn't actually typeset anything, it is \maketitle that typesets the content of \title, \author and \date.

For LyX: To insert some vertical space you can hit Enter and then do Insert --> Formatting --> Vertical space.

For the songs you could \dotfill in an ERT. Write the name of the song, insert an ERT (Ctrl + L) and write \dotfill (with a space after) in it, move the cursor outside the ERT, and write the composer.

For e.g. adforn go to Document --> Settings --> LaTeX preamble and add

\usepackage{adforn}

To use the different commands described in the adforn manual, just insert an ERT and write them in that.

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