After looking at what the Peter Wilson's Memoir class provides for books I decided to learn how to use it for a book. Unfortunately, the LyX implementation is flawed. I'm not on the dev mail list so I'm writing to the general list asking for improvements in that document class. In the meantime, I'll see if I can use the KOMA-Script or basic book class to create the same title page and section headings as I wanted to use with the Memoir class.
These are what I've learned about the Memoir class in LyX-2.3.6.1:
- The documentclass{} settings dialog box does not have an option for the
number of columns; nor do the other settings except for Modules (which
allows adding the multicols package). Yet, the .tex file shows
'twocolumns' as a class option. Okay for articles, but not for books. I
added 'singlecolumn' in the document class options and that fixed this
issue.
- The environment options are appropriate for the memoir article class, not
the book class. There's an Abstract, but no half-title or other book front
matter page layouts.
- Adding the LaTeX (ERT) \mainmatter after the front matter puts that
command between \begin{quote} and \end{quote} so there is no chapter
number assigned to the unstarred chapters. It thinks chapter* is used.
This is as far as I've done. I cannot build LyX-2.4.x on this
Slackware64-14.2 desktop which is my server and main workstation.
Please find time to make the Memoir book class fully functional in currnet
LyX.
TIA,
Rich
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Shepard \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash clearpage \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset CommandInset toc LatexCommand tableofcontents \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset FloatList figure \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset FloatList table \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Chapter* Preface \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The original Water Pollution Control Act of 1899 based assessments on ambient water quality. In the 1948 revision the focus turned to point source pollutant discharges. In the 1972 revision (the Clean Water Act, or CWA) the objective to restore and maintain the physical, chemical, and biological constituents of the nation's waters was reinstated and requires ambient conditions as the assessmen t basis. Unfortunately, the EPA, Tribes, and states continue to set maximum concentratio n levels for specific inorganic ions and organic compounds when assessing water quality. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard The basis for setting water quality standards is decades out of date, given our current understanding of environmental data and availability of recently developed statistical models. The use of a single maximum concentration limit (MCL) for individual chemical elements does not reflect natural ecosystem function nor provide accurate indications of whether regulated industrial activities adversely impact the specific designated beneficial uses of surface or ground waters at specific locations. Water is a complex mixture of chemicals, not individual inorganic ions and organic compounds, and concentrations vary with temperature, pH, flow rate, and location while binding and releasing on inorganic and organic substrata, and other factors. 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This is why aquatic ecologists have established data collection standards to minimize variability when measuring physical and chemical parameters of flowing and standing waters. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Ambient conditions fulfills \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash S \end_layout \end_inset 101.(a) of the 1972 Clean Water Act: \end_layout \begin_layout Quote The objective of this Act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation’s waters. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard While many have proposed qualitative or site-specific indicies and single-number s to define ambient water quality they fail to be quantitative, applicable in every freshwater body, and based on technically sound and legally defensible statistical models. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Aquatic biota are much more reliable indicators of ambient water quality than are concentrations of chemical elements. The EPA considers aquatic life to be the highest and best use of water (that is, the use most sensitive to anthropogenic disturbance). Aquatic biota, along with the abiotic physical and chemical environments, form natural ecosystems. Benthic macroinverebrate communities \begin_inset Foot status collapsed \begin_layout Plain Layout The juvenile life stages of aquatic insects and other small invertebrates such as snails, amphipods, and water mites. \end_layout \end_inset directly reflect the location's ambient conditions. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard This book describes a method that quantifies the local biotic community explains how this process can be used to assess ambient conditions and distinguish inherent natural variability (including climate change) from chnages caused by human activities. \end_layout \begin_layout Quote \begin_inset ERT status open \begin_layout Plain Layout \backslash mainmatter \end_layout \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Chapter Introduction \end_layout \begin_layout Standard Natural ecosystems are highly complex; we cannot have complete knowledge of their variability and interactions among all components. About 50 years ago, when environmental laws started to be created, ecologists were moving from qualitative descriptions of ecosystems, communities, and populations to quantative measures of their dynamics. At that time, appropriate statistical models did not exist, and computers were not as widely (or easily) used as they are today. To implement these statutes regulators had to assess and compare natural ecosystems in attempts to determine anthropogenic effects. The approach used then was to create methods producing a single numerical value assumed to summarize ecosystem quality and separate “good” from “bad” conditions. These species diversity and biotic integrity indices still are used today. And they still fail to describe ecosystem complexity, to quantify inherent natural variability, and to separate natural and anthropogenic changes to these systems. These faillings are overcome by applying appropriate, modern statistical models to biotic data. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard An important benefit of robust statistical analyses of ecosystems is that they integrate components of each drainage basin and its stream network. This integration provides insights that regulators and other stakeholders can use to make informed decisions. These statistical analyses do not produce a dichotomous decision point (less than this number is good, greater than this number is bad), but allow the use of Best Professional Judgment and adjustments as more data and knowledge become available. \end_layout \end_body \end_document
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