On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, John Wetterau wrote:
> Hi, am using V1.01 and am unable to generate Chapter headings that
> consist only of numbers. eg. Chapter 1, and Chapter 2.
> LyX forces me to enter at least one character. It will not accept a
> blank, so I put in a period just to get by. I don't want a period to
> print, however.
Did you try a hard space? Ctrl-Space
That should work.
> I went into the output file with an editor and removed the line with
> the period, but LyX deleted the Chapter heading when loading and
> reformatting the file. Is this a bug? Or am I just using LyX
> improperly?
Hand-editting a .lyx file is an "undefined" operation -- anything could
happen if the file is in a state that LyX doesn't expect. An empty
\layout statement is ignored because LyX doesn't allow empty paragraphs.
Try the hard space.
> By the way, LyX hung unexpectedly while I was doing normal input. I
> had to kill the process as the cpu was maxed out in some kind of loop.
> To my amazement, when I reloaded LyX, it told me that an emergency
> file had been saved and did I want it? Sure did! Very good
> work---whoever wrote that code is a hero(ine).
Can you recall what exactly you were doing as "normal input?"
Did you have any other popups open? Were you trying to search for
something?
Allan. (ARRae)
