Re: Creating a statement of account

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:32:09 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard  wrote:

>I'm trying to create an account statement for clients whom I
> invoice by time and expense and I'm missing something in my efforts.
> The statement is a running explanation of payments received and
> charges against those payments. I'm trying to use the invoice2
> package, so far unsuccessfully.

Hi Rich,

This is unresponsive to your question, but I think LyX is way the
wrong tool for making invoices.

If it's acceptable to use a mono type, I'd just use a program that
outputs the invoice to stdout and pipe that to a printer, or make it
ito a PDF.

If it's guaranteed to always be one page and you want pretty fonts and
pictures, use Inkscape to produce a .svg template, and within that
template use replaceable tokens for everything. If it might be
multiline, it's harder, but you can use break logic to trigger a page
footer routine and a next-page-header routine to create several .svg
files, then use (I'd imagine) pdfjam to turn those into a multipage PDF.

Or, you can do something similar, except instead of .svg use plain TeX
(which is much simpler than LaTeX) to make the header, footer, and line
items, in the fonts you desire.

LyX is a tool that's priceless for creating fixed-text PDF files, and
if it were ever made a true XML it would be priceless also for creating
ePub and HTML and everything else, but in my opinion it's wy too
much tool for the concise and specific task of writing a report or
invoice.

When you're creating your company's accounting statements for
stockholders within your yearly report, THAT's the time to use LyX
(probably with plenty of replacement tokens).

SteveT

Steve Litt 
December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Creating a statement of account

[Rich Shepard]

  I'm trying to create an account statement for clients whom I invoice by
time and expense and I'm missing something in my efforts. The statement is a
running explanation of payments received and charges against those payments.
I'm trying to use the invoice2 package, so far unsuccessfully.

  The document class is KOMA article. At the top of the first page is my
company letterhead (a .pdf file) in a titlehead environment, followed by a
title (the name of the project or case).

  The preamble contains:

\date{}
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\usepackage{invoice2}
\usepackage{longtable}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}

  Following the address (address environment) is a paragraph then the table
which I understand should use the capabilities of the invoice2 package. I've
not figured out how to make the table compatible with that package and would
appreciate a clue stick. I can make the calculations outside the statement
and enter results manually but would like to have the invoice2 package do
this for me.

Regards,

Rich

Re: Help manual correction

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2017, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:


Technically speaking, that's not wrong (at least, not completely): it's
possible to have a book without "parts", but if you try to write
subsections without sections you'll have problems. "Parts" are optional
and in fact they have "level -1" assigned (chapters are "level 0").


Ricardo,

  Yes, a book class does not require Parts, but that's still the maximum
sectioning possible for that class. Chapter is not the maximum. That's the
point I tried to make.

Regards,

Rich

Re: Help manual correction

[Ricardo Berlasso]

2017-12-20 20:51 GMT+01:00 Rich Shepard :

>   I'm not subscribed to lists other than this one so I'll report a
> discrepancy here.
>
>   In the User Guide, Section 3.1.2.5 (properties) is a table of major class
> properties. The table shows the maximum sectioning level for book classes
> as
> 'Chapter' when it should be 'Part.'
>

Technically speaking, that's not wrong (at least, not completely): it's
possible to have a book without "parts", but if you try to write
subsections without sections you'll have problems. "Parts" are optional and
in fact they have "level -1" assigned (chapters are "level 0").

But yes, the table you indicate could be better. Maybe something similar to
the table in

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Document_Structure#Sectioning_commands

but adapted to LyX would be clearer.

Regards,
Ricardo



>
> Happy holidays, all,
>
> Rich
>

Help manual correction

[Rich Shepard]

  I'm not subscribed to lists other than this one so I'll report a
discrepancy here.

  In the User Guide, Section 3.1.2.5 (properties) is a table of major class
properties. The table shows the maximum sectioning level for book classes as
'Chapter' when it should be 'Part.'

Happy holidays, all,

Rich

Re: Vertical space between sections

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 20/12/2017 à 09:28, Serge Vouillarmet a écrit :

Dir Sir or Madam,

I already searched this problem in wiki and the documentations, but I 
couldn’t fix it.


Hello Serge,

For example before chapter the space has to be 40pt, after it 30pt, and 
then should be next the text.


I adjusted the stdlayout.inc file (TopSep, BottomSep), LyX interpreted 
it right, but in the pdf, there were no changes.


Indeed, the layout file mostly show on screen what the LaTeX class does.


Then I tried it with KOMA-Script:

\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=42pt, afterskip=30pt]{chapter}

I got an error, that \begin{document} is missing, then I tried several 
places in the document to put it in, but the error was still there.


Put this command in the preamble (in French 
Documents>Paramètres>Préambule LaTeX).


JMarc

Vertical space between sections

[Serge Vouillarmet]

Dir Sir or Madam,

 

I already searched this problem in wiki and the documentations, but I
couldn't fix it.

 

I'm using the article class for my master's thesis and I have to put defined
vertical spaces before and after chapter-, section- and subsection-headings.

For example before chapter the space has to be 40pt, after it 30pt, and then
should be next the text.

 

I adjusted the stdlayout.inc file (TopSep, BottomSep), LyX interpreted it
right, but in the pdf, there were no changes.

Then I tried it with KOMA-Script: 

\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=42pt, afterskip=30pt]{chapter}

I got an error, that \begin{document} is missing, then I tried several
places in the document to put it in, but the error was still there.

 

Can you help me?

 

Kind Regards

Serge Vouillarmet