Am 04.04.2018 um 10:36 schrieb Andrew Parsloe <[email protected]>:
> 
> On 4/04/2018 6:15 p.m., Niklas Huldén wrote:
>> On 03.04.2018 20:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2018 12:38 PM, Niklas Huldén wrote:
>>>> Den 03-04-2018 kl. 18:51, skrev Paul A. Rubin:
>>>>> On 04/03/2018 10:55 AM, Niklas Huldén wrote:
>>>>>> Hello all!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am testing LyX 2.3.0 on windows 10 with MikTex 2.9. I have some old 
>>>>>> tables with footnotes inside them which used to line up fine with the 
>>>>>> table using the "minipage trick" putting the table in a minipage 
>>>>>> (whitout the caption).
>>>>>> In LyX 2.3.0 this results in the footnote becoming an ordinary footnote, 
>>>>>> which makes it hard to keep tables and footnotes on the same page. But I 
>>>>>> understand this is a feature now. Is there any way to "emulate" the old 
>>>>>> behavior? I include a MWF and two screenshots.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks and all the best!
>>>>>> Niklas
>>>>> You could add \renewcommand{\tablefootnote}{\footnote} to the document 
>>>>> preamble. (If you do this a lot, you might want to cobble together a 
>>>>> module for it.)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Paul
>>>>> 
>>>> Thank you Paul! This works fine and takes me out of immediate danger zone. 
>>>> I guess a module would be a good idea in the long run.
>>>> 
>>>> A somewhat linked issue is that I get an error message if I use the rotate 
>>>> package in a LyX file that uses tablefootnotes: "Package tablefootnote 
>>>> Error: Package rotating loaded after tablefootnote."
>>>> 
>>>> Hard to find a place to load rotate before the tablefootnote though.
>>>> 
>>>> Many thanks again!
>>>> 
>>>> Niklas
>>>> 
>>> Niklas,
>>> 
>>> I've attached a module. Try putting it in your local layouts folder 
>>> (~/.lyx/layouts on most Linux systems), then reconfigure LyX, add it to 
>>> your document (and do /not/ add the \renewcommand line in the preamble), 
>>> then see if you get the desired results (including using the rotate 
>>> package).
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Paul
>>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Thank you Paul! I placed the module in (windows 10) 
>> "c:\Users\myselfwhatever\AppData\Local\LyX 2.3\Resources\layouts\ and 
>> reconfigured but could not find any module in restarted LyX. This might have 
>> something to do with my Windows configuration.
>> 
>> I then placed it in "c:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.3\Resources\layouts\" as 
>> administrator, reconfigured and now it is available in document 
>> settings/modules. Everything works including getting rid of the rotating 
>> error message :)
>> 
>> I will try it in my Mac tonight.
>> 
>> All the best!
>> Niklas
>> 
> On Windows 7 the module should go to "C:\Users\<your 
> name>\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.3\layouts\".  I would expect this to be the same 
> on Windows 10. The "c:\Program Files (x86)\LyX 2.3\Resources\layouts\" 
> location should be left for layouts and modules of the official LyX 
> distribution. When LyX 2.3.1 comes out and you upgrade, this folder will be 
> overwritten and Paul's module will be lost (unless it gets incorporated into 
> the official LyX distro.).
> 
> Andrew

The correct path name for the user configuration directory is
shown in the About LyX dialog. Probably there is a missing or
an additional space in path name here.

On Mac the directory path name should contain LyX-2.3, BTW.

Stephan

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