I tried to make a layout file supporting the scrpage2 package,
which is the koma-script way of customizing the page headings.
This package support extra pagestyles, such as "scrheadings".
So I put this in my .layout file:
PageStyle scrheadings
Classoptions
PageStyle "empty|scrheadings"
End
Preamble
\usepackage{scrpage2}
EndPreamble
All this works with the LyX user interface, I can now
specify the "scrheadings" page style in document settings.
Unfortunately, at latex generation time I get this:
\documentclass[12pt,norsk,smallheadings]{scrbook}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,letterpaper}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
.
.
.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{scrpage2}% Head/foot
The problem here is that \pagestyle{scrheadings} happens early,
before \usepackage{scrpage2}. The latter comes from the .layout file.
But \pagestyle{scrheadings} is not understood until "scrpage2" is loaded.
So I get a latex error.
The simplest fix I can imagine is to output the \pagestyle command
_after_ the preamble from the .layout-file. Testing shows that this one
change is enough - I can make a PDF again.
Making this change in lyx will give more options when making .layout files.
I filed this as a wishlist bug - current lyx makes no promise about
pagestyles in extra packages. But the .layout mechanism have
fields for specifying free-form page styles, and scrpage2 is an
official add-on package for the popular koma-script classes.
Would you be interested in a patch that makes LyX hold back
\pagestyle{} to after the .layout preamble, or is the current
freeze absolute? It looks like a simple low-risk thing to me.
Helge Hafting
