That seemed to be the case, thanks for confirming.
Is your patch on github? I have time now due to current events and could
take a look at finishing it.
Matt
On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 9:19 AM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>
wrote:
> On 3/26/20 8:55 PM, Matt Barnard wrote:
>
> Sure, see attached. Adjusting the LyX numbering like this is something
> I've found myself wanting to do a number of times.
>
> Yes, the only to fix this in LyX itself would be with some LaTeX trickery
> of the sort you describe below. There's not currently any way to manipulate
> LyX's counters within the text itself. I have a partial patch that will do
> this kind of thing but haven't had time to finish it.
>
> Riki
>
>
>
> Example (attached)
>
>> \setcounter{part}{9}
>> Part 10 My document starts on Part 10
>> 1 with one section
>> \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{*By the way,}*By the way,
>> This chapter is an aside, but it needs to be at the Part level in the ToC
>> \setcounter{part}{9}
>> Part 11 then we continue with Part 10
>> 2 but LyX says this is Part 11
>
>
> Note that I resolved this for now using the following:
>
> \newcounter{previouschapter}
>> \newcounter{previoussection}
>> \newcounter{uniquechapteranchor}
>> \newcommand{\pushchapter}{%
>> \let\previouschaptertitle\parttitle%
>>
> \setcounter{previouschapter}{\value{part}}%
>> \setcounter{previoussection}{\value{section}}%
>> }
>> \newcommand{\popchapter}{%
>> \renewcommand*{\theHpart}{\value{uniquechapteranchor}\the\value{part}}
>> % for hyperref
>
> \chapt{\value{previouschapter}} %
>> shorthand for \setcounter{part}{n-1}
>> \part{\previouschaptertitle~(cont.)}%
>> \sect{\value{previoussection}}%
>> \stepcounter{section}%
>> \stepcounter{uniquechapteranchor}%
>> }
>
>
> and then
>
>
>> \part{Real part }
>
> \pushchapter
>> \part*{Interrupting part}
>
> \popchapter % output a new part, but don't start a new part in LyX
>
> \section{this is in real part}
>
>
> LyX continues numbering with the previous part even though I write a new
> part in the output
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:57 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/26/20 4:16 PM, Matt Barnard wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm interrupting a numbered chapter with an unnumbered chapter, and I
>> would like to continue sections within that previous numbered chapter. I've
>> done this on the output side with \setcounter{part}, but in LyX the
>> chapter number is still incremented.
>>
>> I've fixed this for the first instance using the local layout
>>
>> Counter part
>>
>> InitialValue 12
>>
>> End
>>
>> but I haven't found a way to give LyX a command mid-document to adjust
>> numbering.
>>
>> Is this currently supported?
>>
>> I'm not sure I entirely understand the issue. Can you post a very simple
>> example file?
>>
>> Riki
>>
>>
>>
>
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