So reducing it until it comes to the source of the issue, which is MWE :-)-O
The point is, even a three line LyX file has a preamble and many switches, maybe even modules. Never mind, if one asks for help... el -- Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini 4 > On 13 Oct 2017, at 18:07, Christos Makridis <cmakr...@stanford.edu> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I think I resolved it. There was a component of my preamble that I've been > using based on someone else's template, and it included a command that put > periods after section numbers. > > Just to clarify RE the minimum working example: what I had put in my earlier > email was something that could literally be copy/pasted into a lyx file, so I > just assumed that would suffice. I can send an actual lyx file in the future > even if it is just three lines of lyx commands though!