On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 20:55 -0500, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:32:54 -0600
> Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> > That ALMOST worked... I now have the TOC first page un-numbered and
> > the second page numbered(which is what I wanted) and no number on the
> > List of Tables(also what I wanted), but there is a problem with the
> > list of figures. Basically here is how I want it: I want to start
> > counting in roman numerals from the title page, supressing all numbers
> > on the first page of a new section. For some reason, when the TOC
> > lists what page the, say List of Figures, is on it is not factoring in
> > the pages of the TOC. So if the TOC is on page 5 and the list of
> > Figures on page 7 ,it will come up on the TOC listed as being on page
> > 6 because it is not counting the actual page in the TOC.(did that make
> > sense?) Also, with your code, I am still getting a number on the first
> > page of the List of figures and List of Tables... I cant get it to
> > work sometimes with combinations of number counting or number
> > supressing the way I want, but not all at once. Thanks for the help,
> > I am really new to this and I am trying to learn!
> > Charles
> >
> >
>
> Hi Charles,
>
> Your problem should be easy to solve, at least compared to other latex
> problems. What I think is occurring is that LyX is not processing the
> document enough times. That is the only way I can account for the
> wrong page numbering. It is a common problem for latex to not number
> the pages right when it is not run enough times. Believe it or not,
> you probably have to run latex 3 times on your document.
>
> As for the page numbers showing up for the first page of the list of
> tables and list of figures, my guess is that the \thispagestyle
> command is ending up in the wrong place, either because of where you
> put it in your LyX document or where LyX puts it when it converts it
> to latex.
>
> Here's what I would do. Export your document to latex. Now go to the
> terminal and type:
>
> latex -output-format=pdf -halt-on-error <document.tex> && latex
> -output-format=pdf -halt-on-error <document.tex> && latex
> -output-format=pdf -halt-on-error <document.tex>
>
> Or if that is too much for one line, just type:
>
> latex -output-format=pdf -halt-on-error <document.tex>
>
> Then type the same command two more times.
>
> Make sure that you substute your actual name of your file for
> <document.tex>. So if your document is called thesis.tex, you would
> type:
>
> latex -output-format=pdf -halt-on-error thesis.tex
>
> That should create a PDF file. Open that up in your PDF viewer and see
> if that fixes your problem. If it does or if it doesn't, open up your
> <document.tex> in a text editor and cut and past the code that has
> \tableofcontents, including the lines above it and the lines after
> \listoffigures--in other words, all the relevant text.
>
> Paul
Hi Paul,
I am getting an error when I try to output the .tex file..
==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
So here is the text from the tex file immediately before(the
acknowlegements) up the first line of Chapter one. Thanks for your
patience,
Charles
\newpage{}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS}{\Large \vspace*{2cm}
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\vspace*{1cm}
}{\Large \par}
I would like to thank the following people for their help with this
thesis.
\newpage{}
\thispagestyle{empty} \tableofcontents
\thispagestyle{empty} \listoftables
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES}
\thispagestyle{empty} \listoffigures
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF FIGURES}
\chapter{Introduction}
\begin{doublespace}
\thispagestyle{empty} \pagenumbering{arabic} This project seeks to
measure the triboluminescent light emitted a from meso-velocity frontal
impact on lunar regolith simulant doped with a phosphorous material.
