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Wolfgang Engelmann
Sent: torsdag 17. november 2016 11.06
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Subject: Re: Numbering of Theorems, etc.



On 17.11.2016 10:56, Bernt Lie wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Andrew Parsloe
> Sent: torsdag 17. november 2016 10.43
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Numbering of Theorems, etc.
>
>
>
> On 17/11/2016 9:43 p.m., Bernt Lie wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>> Behalf Of Andrew Parsloe
>>
>>
>>     Perhaps I've misunderstood, but it seems to me what is wanted is 
>> the module Theorems (Numbered by
>>
>>     Type within Chapters) that comes with LyX.
>>
>>     This allows one to number by type within chapters each of 
>> theorems, corollaries, lemmas, propositions,
>>
>>     conjectures, facts, definitions, examples, problems, exercises, 
>> remarks and claims.
>>
>>      Andrew
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks Andrew. Yes, that's what I also thought, but this has no 
>> effect... Choosing
>>
>> and
>>
>> seems to give the same result. I don’t understand why. (Is it because 
>> the first selection says AMS, Numbered by Type, and the second one 
>> doesn’t mention AMS?)
>>
>> Anyway, depending on which choice I make first, not all choices are 
>> available. Example: with the latter of these choices (both Theorems 
>> (AMS, ...) and Theorems (Numbered by Type...)...
>>
>> ·if I try to select Theorems (AMS, ...) first, option “Delete” is not 
>> available
>>
>> ·so I have to delete the second option first, and then after that, I 
>> can delete “Theorems (AMS, ...)”.
>>
>> Likewise, module “Theorems (Numbered by Type within Chapters)” – 
>> which is really what I want – can only be added if I **first** add 
>> “Theorems (AMS, Numbered by Type)”... and then it doesn’t give the expected 
>> effect.
>>
>> Ideally, this is how I’d like it to work, without having to “hack” in 
>> the preamble...
>>
>> --
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bernt
>>
>      LyX doesn't supply all the modules necessary to use AMS environments 
> numbered by type within
>      chapters. I ran into this problem some weeks ago but found I could 
> create or adjust the necessary
>      modules using the supplied ones as models. I've attached the 
> new/adjusted ones to this email. Place
>      them in the layouts folder of your personal LyX directory.
>      Then you will need to reconfigure LyX so it knows of them.
>
>      There are dependencies among the modules which is why some can't be 
> added or deleted without
>      others.
> --
> Thanks, Andrew...
>
> * I will probably be able to figure out what the "layouts folder of 
> your personal LyX directory" is. I *assume* that what I have to do, is 
> simply save the attached files in this folder. (Explorer... using 
> %appdata%, I found folder layouts under LyX2.2.)
>
> * "Then you will need to reconfigure LyX so it knows of them". Here, I'm lost 
> as to what this means. Does this simply mean: go into Document Settings of 
> LyX, and add the new modules in the Modules part? Or something entirely 
> different?
>
> -Bernt
       >tools>reconfigure
       Wolfgang


Beautiful! Thanks, Richard, Andrew and Wolfgang!

It would be very nice if these improved/fixed modules could be part of the 
standard installation of LyX in the future -- so that I don't have to remember 
to save them each time...

-Bernt

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