Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>>
>>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>>> lyx-1.5.2. I chose ams article class. I don't have any sections in
>>>> this short memo, and the first equation is 0.1.
>>>>
>>>> Exporting latexpdf, I see:
>>>> \numberwithin{equation}{section} %% Comment out for
>>>> sequentially-numbered \numberwithin{figure}{section} %% Comment out for
>>>> sequentially-numbered
>>>>
>>>> How can I change this within lyx? I don't see anything in document
>>>> settings.
>>> Document class "article (AMS, sequential numbering)"?
>>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> BTW, having to choose a different class just to get some little variation
>> is, (let me be kind here...) suboptimal?
>
> Well, funky maybe.
>
>> I can imagine a nice dialog with check boxes for this sort of thing.
>
> "This sort of thing" is going to be very class-specific. For AMS, it's
> a check box to decide whether numbering is within sections ... and
> another for whether there's numbering at all. For a different class
> it's going to be something else. So I think what this would require is
> (1) syntax in the layout file to define options (how to display them in
> a dialog, what the choices are, what LaTeX to insert for each choice)
> and (2) an extra dialog in Document -> Settings that self-configures
> based on that piece of the layout file. Sounds doable (though not by me
> -- allergy to C++), but perhaps not obvious how many layouts would
> exploit it. Perhaps it should go on the wiki wish-list and people could
> vote for it (by suggesting layouts that would benefit from it)?
>
> /Paul
I have so far not written any code for lyx. I _did_ buy the PyQt4 book.
How do we feel about using PyQt for something like this, or does that even
make any sense?
