On 7/23/21 12:14 PM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
This question is still related to the recent thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg112228.html
<https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg112228.html>
I thought I got it right, but several unexpected problems came up and
I'd like to have your opinion.
What I want to do is the following: I'm preparing a series of lectures
that will employ theorem-like environments.
Several lectures are related to the same subject and so I want the
enumeration of numbered things (equations, figures, theorems,
examples, definitions, etc) in subsequent lectures to continue from
the previous ones.
In order to guarantee the correct sequence, I'm loading in the
preamble the totcount package. For each counter employed in a given
lecture, the totcount package creates a new counter (equation@totc,
figure@totc, etc), which contains the last value of the counter.
The values of these counters are then written in a specific file (call
it previous.tc), which can be read in the subsequent lecture.
Finally, by using
\setcounter{<counter>}{<last value>}
I can guarantee the desired continuation of the enumeration of things.
For the native LaTeX counters (equation, figure, etc), I've been
including all the necessary commands in an ERT with the layout InPreamble.
For the native counters, this works all right because the counters are
defined with the class and class packages, which are read before
user-specific definitions incuded with the InPreamble layout.
However, for the theorem-like environments, the implementation is more
involved. The problems that are coming up are:
1. Say a given environment like theorem is only introduced from the
second lecture. In this case, the file previous.tc will not contain
the last value of the counter thm@totc, because there was no theorem
in the first lecture. Hence, I cannot issue a \setcounter{thm}{<last
value>} because in this case the number of the first theorem gets
increased for each LyX/LaTeX compilation.
This complicates the implementation of the custom theorem-bytpe module
I've been tinkering with in my previous thread. Somehow I need to
introduce instructions to read the previous.tc file and find out if
the counter thm was previously employed. Only if there is a last
value of thm@totc that I can \setvalue the counter.
I'm not sure what will be the best way to implement this. Several
posts I've been browsing through suggest the use of TeX natives like
\newread, \openin \read, etc, and then use some package (like xstring)
that identifies specific strings in each line read. Seems too much
trouble for me.
2. Then I decided to dumb down my approach. I will only use \setvalue
for those counters that I know are employed in the previous lecture,
as I was doing so far with the native LaTeX counters.
The problem now is that with the layout InPreamble, those instructions
will be written before the ams-theorem module defines the thm
counters. That is going to give errors.
It seems that as of now there is no way to choose the ordering of the
instructions contained in the layout InPreamble inside the document's
preamble. This is discussed in this thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg100172.html
<https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg100172.html>
Therefore, the only solution that I can imagine is to write the
necessary instructions in the user-defined preamble accessible in
Document Settings -> LaTeX Preamble
This way, I guarantee the correct ordering of the instructions.
Anyway, I just wanted to vent out my frustration that I was not smart
enough to somehow automatize this process. This is an admittedly very
specific problem, and I don't know if you think this can be of
interest to the larger community.
--
Rudi Gaelzer
Institute of Physics
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741
I've never used the totcount package, so this may be a bit naive. For
the first issue, can you set the relevant counters (equation@totc) etc.
to zero with a \setcounter command in the preamble of the first document
and, if so, will that zero value get written to the file if no
environments of the type counted appear in the document? That would
(hopefully) give you a starting value for the next document.
For the second issue, can you wrap your preamble code in
AtBeginDocument{} and, if so, does that allow ams-theorem to load first
and your code to execute correctly?
Paul
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