------ Original Message ------
From: "John White" <j...@whitelawchartered.com>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Cc: "Rich Shepard" <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com>
Sent: 31-May-18 8:57:39 AM
Subject: Re: Pleading Paper / TOC question

>On Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:12:45 AM PDT Rich Shepard wrote:
>>On Tue, 29 May 2018, John White wrote:
>> > I have contacted and heard back from lawlist, the person who posted 
>>the
>> > pleading paper template. Nice fellow but he is a latex guy, not a 
>>lyx guy.
>> > He does not know about lyx indexes.
>> >
>> > I filed the brief yesterday using lyx indexes and TOC. Before 
>>filing, I
>> > had to go to the office and put blank lined and numbered (left side 
>>of
>> > page) paper in the copier. I then printed to the copier and it was 
>>fine,
>> > albeit the procedure is quite cumbersome. Would be much better if I 
>>could
>> > print the indexed file while having lyx generate the numbers down 
>>the left
>> > hand side of the paper.
>>
>>John,
>>
>>    I would know about pleading papers only if attorneys who engage me 
>>as an
>>expert consultant/witness share them with me so I have no idea why 
>>adding an
>>index to the back of a document would prevent line numbers from 
>>printing.
>>Doesn't make sense that they'd be related.
>>
>>    Because LyX supports many niche users (e.g., music composition,
>>linguistics, poetry) I encourage you to ask the developers to make 
>>your
>>needs workable. Seems to me that adding legal document support is a
>>reasonable request.
>>
>>    Consider creating a short document using the lorem ipsum package to
>>create dummy text with an index and line numbering and post that to 
>>the
>>mail list.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Rich
>
>lawlist was kind enough to send me the code which, he says, produses a 
>table
>of contents and list of authorties in latex, using pdflatex.. But it 
>does not
>work in lyx. Do you have a suggestion regarding how I could get TOC and
>indexes to work in lyx documents which have numbered lines along the 
>left-hand
>side of the paper?  It is apparently not an easy thing to do.  Yet 
>every
>lawyer who uses lyx to produce a brief with indexes and a table of 
>contents
>needs this function.
>
>John
>

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