On Sun, Nov 14, 2021 at 09:05:21AM +0100, Daniel wrote:
> On 2021-11-11 15:24, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > This works great. Thank you! I had to set 'InitialValue' to 2 since the
> > title takes up a frame for me.
> 
> I guess a more ideal solution would be to make the title also increase the
> counter by one since sometimes one might have a title frame and sometimes
> not (or a custom one consisting of a normal frame). However, I did not
> manage to get the counter to step up with the Title style *without* adding a
> label. For example, I tried
> 
> 
> Style Title
>   LabelType        Static
>   LabelString      ""
>   LabelCounter     frame
> End

Good idea, that is a better approach.

> But instead of an empty LabelString, LyX seems to treat it the same as if it
> hadn't been defined and adds just the number in front. Maybe this is a bug?
> Shouldn't there be a difference between an empty string and no string set?
> In general, it would be good if one could let counters increase without
> defining a special label which presupposes too much that one has understood
> the inner workings of counters. Or at least there should be a better
> documentation for how it does (and does not) work. I guess Scott having
> failed is pretty good evidence that something is not great here.

Things are definitely complex. A lot of it is that I just don't have
much familiarity with layout tags.

In any case, thanks for the help!

Scott

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