I posted a while ago about building lyx layout files for the TeX slide
style "prosper" because I want incremental display of lines on a slide.
Unfortunately, pending some revision in the prosper package (which the
author said he would consider), this is not possible.
The problem is that currently, prosper expects you to use a latex
declaration of the number of items to follow in an enumerated list. You
put the whole slide inside a declaration like
\overlays{10}{%
[insert slide latex here]
}
in case you have 10 items to follow. I don't see any feasible way to do
this which avoids ert in a LyX document, in which case there's not much
point in having a layout.
I proposed to the prosper author that he should revise the overlays so
that it does not require the Number in the overlays declaration. It
should just show how many items there happen to be. He said he thought
he could do it, but 2 latex passes on the file would be required, one to
count items, the next to process the file. (i gather that is similar to
the way bibtex makes 2 passes?)
I realize this is hypothetical, but IF prosper gets the needed fix, is
it possible for me to build a layout file that causes the 2 latex passes
to be done?
I know I'm new at this, but from looking at seminar.sty and foilTeX.sty,
I think I am understanding the nature of my challenge.
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