Dear community,
a few days ago I wrote you my problem in german. Sorry for that.
Instead of it I will try it with my (bad) english:
I have produced around 120 A4 pages with LyX, interspersed with much
mathematical formulas. I choose the KOMA-script for books for it. The
content is finished, now I'm fine-tuning the shape. In doing so, I
carefully consult the manuals enclosed with the software:
* Introduction
* Tutorial
* User Guide
* Extensions
* Adjustments
* Embedded Objects
* Special manuals
* Etc.
I have already been able to solve a number of problems this way.
But now I am facing a tricky problem. And I don't know if the problem
is with me, with LyX or with its documentation. In all honesty, I'm a
little confused. I try to tell you the cause of my confusion.
I want to include boxes for mathematical examples in my book. To do
this, I chose the so called 'colored boxes', divided them into an
upper part (for the mathematical example) and a lower part (for its
solution), was able to underlay both parts with different colors (for
making it pretty), choose a pretty thin boxrule and finally managed to
make the box breakable. I can even place the text for footnotes inside
the box outside the box. Unfortunately, two strange things happen in
this process:
1. I put 2 footnotes in the box. Outside the box, however, both
footnote texts are quoted with the same No. 2. A footnote text
with No. 1 does not even exist.
2. I made the entire text in the collor box long enough, so there
MUST be arise a page break. This puts the first footnote on the
first page and the second on the second page of the box. Now the
two footnote texts should be shown on the corresponding pages. But
they won't, both are shown on the second page.
So far so bad.
And now comes my real problem, which arises when I try to fix the
problem above:
In the various manuals
* Tutorial 5.2.4.2;
* UserGuide 6.7.1, 6.10.2, B.18,
* Additional 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.5, 3.4, 3.5.2, 5.6.2, 6.2.3,
6.2.4.2, 6.2.5.4, 6.7.3, 6.7.5.1, 6.7.5.2, 6.9 .3, 6.11.3, 6.12.3,
6.12.4, 6.13.2, 6.16, 6.16.2, 6.18.4.3, 8.1.3.1;
* EmbeddeObjects 2.5, 2.6.3, 2.6.3.2, 2.7.1, 2.8.2.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4,
2.9, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.11.3, 2.13, 2.14.1, 2.14.3 , 2.14.4,
2.14.5, 3.2.1, 3.3, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.5, 3.9, 3.10, 4.1,
4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.3, 6.3, 8;
* Customization 5.3.5, 5.3.7, 6.2.2
it is always advised to add into the preamble in some situations.
However, in the manual, for example 'Additional 2.4.2 - Change the
preamble' is written:
/The commands LyX adds to the header of a LaTeX file are fixed; You
cannot change them without changing LyX yourself. But you can add your
own stuff to the preamble.
To do this, choose Document⇒Settings⇒LaTeX header. This opens an
editing window in which you can write your preferred commands.
The editing behavior in this window is specific, so don't expect the
LyX key combinations to work in it.
LyX adds everything in the LaTeX leader window to its built-in leader.
Before you add your own declarations to the header, check to see if
LyX doesn't already support this (remember what we said about
reinventing the wheel?). Also: make sure your headers are correct. LyX
doesn't check it. If the opening credits are incorrect, you will most
likely get the error message Missing \ begin {document}. If you ever
get them, check your opening credits!/
Nice. When I try to change the preamble, I regularly read the LaTeX
preamble shown in LyX in its first line:
/% Do not change the preamble !!!/
Even if I ignore that, I can't add anything to the preamble - that
seems to be technically impossible in LyX.
Now the manual UserGuide '3.1.2.4 - Local Format' says:
/Modules work with LyX like packages with LaTeX: They are meant to be
used in different documents. If you often need the same thing in
different documents, you should consider writing a module for it.
Sometimes, however, you need a format for a particular document, but
only in that one document. Something like a document-specific LaTeX
preamble: LyX ’ so-called 'local format'. See the Local Layout section
of the Customization Guide for information on how to use it./
When I try to find the various in the above Manuals to accommodate the
changes proposed there in the 'local format', I regularly receive the
message after validation:
/Format is invalid!/
Can you please help me?
Greetings
Andreas Plihal