On 11/29/21 7:00 PM, Melvin Bolton wrote:
I have in the past completed a lengthy book, using Lyx, without
needing to trouble anybody for help, but I'm now baffled by what
should be a simple, basic task and I have no idea what to try next.
My problem is that the pagestyle settings that should place page
numbers in the footer, are showing them in the output only on the
first page of each chapter, which the User Guide says is treated by
Lyx as a special environment.
I began with KOMA-Script ( scrbook) with pagestyle set to 'plain' as
I'd done previously. This places page numbers in the outer end of the
footer as I prefer them. When I found them only appearing on the first
page of each chapter I searched online and tried pasting a few
commands in the preamble but nothing helped and mostly I got
compilation errors. I've cleared the preamble.
I tried Lyx Standard Class (Book) with pagestyle set to 'plain', which
centred the page numbers as it should, but still only on first pages
of chapters. Neither was there any improvement after I tried pagestyle
set to 'fancy' and tried to customize that. It's as though chapter
footers are not accessible, except for first page.
In my document, immediately before the first chapter, I have the
following ERT: \mainmatter\pagestyle{plain} \setcounter{page}{1}
The frontmatter is fine because I have don't want page numbers there
and have pagestyle set to 'empty.' That, at least, has worked; there
were Roman numerals there to begin with.
Finally, I did a reinstallation of Lyx (ver. 2.3.6.1) in case of
corruption, (apparently not) and I'm now out of ideas.
I shall be truly grateful for any help, but I will need precise
instruction if I am to paste commands correctly into the preamble. I
really am an old novice.
Thank you
Melvin
I think we will need a minimal example (MWE) of this to diagnose. The
LyX file should be self-contained if possible, so you try cutting out
illustrations and other external matter. If the contents is not for our
eyes, feel free to substitute "blah blah blah" or whatever, so long as
when you compile the MWE the page numbers remain buggered.
Paul
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