\footnotesep is the space between footnotes: \setlength{\footnotesep}{0.5cm} \footins is the space between the text body and the footnotes: \setlength{\skip\footins}{2cm} You might want to play around with the actual numbers, I’ve just chosen some values where you will actually see the difference.
I prefer to insert the listings as a child document, so the code is grabbed directly from a file that you can further edit and keep updated (you avoid to duplicate an information and maintenance is a lot easier). To do this in Lyx: Insert->File->Child document Then in the window that will appear change the … Read more
TikZ can do this. A quick demo: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} [scale=.8,auto=left,every node/.style={circle,fill=blue!20}] \node (n6) at (1,10) {6}; \node (n4) at (4,8) {4}; \node (n5) at (8,9) {5}; \node (n1) at (11,8) {1}; \node (n2) at (9,6) {2}; \node (n3) at (5,5) {3}; \foreach \from/\to in {n6/n4,n4/n5,n5/n1,n1/n2,n2/n5,n2/n3,n3/n4} \draw (\from) — (\to); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document} produces: More … Read more