On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:52:38AM +0200, Charles de Miramon wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>
> > After some kind help from Micha and Charles, I have 1.4.1 running
> > apparently smoothly (the screen still appears a bit sluggish, which I
> > recall seeing in other posts about 1.4.1--but that's not an issue for
> > me yet... ;-). An important problem I immediately encountered involves
> > the way it interprets the enumeration environment in older files.
> >
> > What happens in my exams is an apparent reset of the counter after any
> > deliberate page break. As a chunk of my exams includes several pages
> > of m/c questions, this is a real problem. I have included a gutted
> > example exam which shows this behavior.
> >
>
> Your problem comes from the fact that the enumerate format in a LyX file
> does not map very well the enumerate environment in LaTeX and that LyX has
> to guess where it must close the enumerate environment. The manual newpages
> that you have inserted trick the LyX algorithm in a subtle different way
> than in LyX 1.3.6
>
> Two solutions :
> - Delete and reinsert the manual newpages, it could trick back LyX in your
> desired behavior
> - Export to LaTeX and suppress the extra \end{enumerate} \begin{enumerate}
>
> Users have a lot of problems with enumerations in LyX. I think there is a
> need to a more powerful interface (maybe with all the features of mdwlist)
> with a finer control of setting and resetting enumeration numbers.
It may be that LaTeX doesn't like some of the code from LyX (though I
don't recall having any problem like this before), but in this case I'm
trying to read a 1.3.6 file into LyX 1.4.1. It hasn't been converted
to LaTeX yet.
It seems to me that the converter isn't handling this type of file
well, yet. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something though.
Kenward
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