Thank you very much for your reply. It is now clear to me. Is there any way that this numbering style can replace the page numbers at the bottom?
On 1 November 2010 12:47, Stephan Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 01.11.2010 um 12:16 schrieb Ankur Srivastava: > > > Thank you very much for your prompt reply. I'm still not sure about how > to do this. Could you please tell me step by step, I'm a new user and I > don't know much. > > You know how to insert a label? (Insert-menu -> Label...) > You know how to insert a reference? (Insert-menu -> Cross-Reference...) > > To make the ERT box with the current page number you type "\thepage{}" > (without quotes), mark this text and use Insert-menu -> TeX Code. > > An example is attached. > > Stephan > > > I made a test document that is two pages long. I entered a label 2 in the > end and I entered the code in the beginning but I don't know how to do the > cross reference and I feel that I'm doing something wrong. > > > > On 1 November 2010 11:58, Stephan Witt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 01.11.2010 um 11:47 schrieb Ankur Srivastava: > > > > > Dear list members, > > > I've been using Lyx for a month and I cannot find one feature that I > need for my Extended Essay. How do I set the page numbering in the form page > x of y, where x is the current page and y is the total number of pages? I'm > really puzzled. I looked at the documentation and FAQ but I didn't find > anything there. > > > Thank you > > > > I add a label at the very end of the document and use a reference to that > label for y. > > For x I add \thepage{} in ERT (the red box for TeX code). >
