------ 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 > Dear All, This is a test message. I have installed a new email client to fix the issues with mailing list messages. Apologies for the inconvenience. BE >