Now that you have our curiosity up, perhaps you might show us where we could
find a
synopsis of your book. Who knows. You might make a sale or two.
On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 6:34:50 PM PST Melvin Bolton wrote:
> Thank you to everybody who offered suggestions and tried to help with
> the problem described below. It steered me towards the ERT that I had
> placed immediately before the first chapter. What finally did the trick
> was to repeat the ERT \pagestyle {plain} in the text, after the last
> word (as printed in output) of Chapter 1, page 1. After that, the page
> numbers appeared on every page footer in all 18 chapters, centred in
> Standard Class, and in the outers when I switched back to Koma.
>
> Perhaps this simply countered an earlier error of some sort. I don't
> know but I hope this snippet will prove helpful to others at some point.
>
> Thank you again
>
> Melvin
>
>
>
> I have in the past completed a lengthy book, using Lyx, without needing
> to trouble anybody for help, but I'm now baffled by what should be a
> simple, basic task and I have no idea what to try next.
>
> My problem is that the pagestyle settings that should place page numbers
> in the footer, are showing them in the output only on the first page of
> each chapter, which the User Guide says is treated by Lyx as a special
> environment.
> I began with KOMA-Script ( scrbook) with pagestyle set to 'plain' as I'd
> done previously. This places page numbers in the outer end of the footer
> as I prefer them. When I found them only appearing on the first page of
> each chapter I searched online and tried pasting a few commands in the
> preamble but nothing helped and mostly I got compilation errors. I've
> cleared the preamble.
>
> I tried Lyx Standard Class (Book) with pagestyle set to 'plain', which
> centred the page numbers as it should, but still only on first pages of
> chapters. Neither was there any improvement after I tried pagestyle set
> to 'fancy' and tried to customize that. It's as though chapter footers
> are not accessible, except for first page.
>
> In my document, immediately before the first chapter, I have the
> following ERT: \mainmatter\pagestyle{plain} \setcounter{page}{1}
>
> The frontmatter is fine because I have don't want page numbers there and
> have pagestyle set to 'empty.' That, at least, has worked; there were
> Roman numerals there to begin with.
> Finally, I did a reinstallation of Lyx (ver. 2.3.6.1) in case of
> corruption, (apparently not) and I'm now out of ideas.
>
> I shall be truly grateful for any help, but I will need precise
> instruction if I am to paste commands correctly into the preamble. I
> really am an old novice.
>
> Thank you
>
> Melvin
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