Thanks very much for the heads-up. I've not run into the problem yet, but I can see it looming ahead.
Regards, Daron On 8 Dec 2010, at 20:45, stefano franchi wrote: > George, Daron, > > please note that memoir's \pagenote and \foottopagenote use in Lyx currently > suffers from two problems: > > 1. a 2-paragraphs (or more) pagenote produced with Lyx 's footnote command > and \foottopagenote will fail and produce a Latex error. One paragraph notes > are okay. > > 2. similarly, a pagenote produced with Lyx's footnote command and > \foottopagenote cannot contain \index commands unless they are "protected" > (you need to insert a \protect command as ERT **immediately before** the > \index command). > > Lars Madsen, the maintainer of memoir, is working on both issues (the first > one is trivial, apparently, the second one less so). > > You may follow up the details of the copnversation we have been having on > computer.text.tex: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/4793e5cfd369907f# > > Cheers, > > Stefano > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:33 AM, george legge <gandmle...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Darren. The first version works perfectly to give what I expect to > see for endnotes. > The only addition I made was to add "\wide" before and "\endwide" after > "\printpagenotes*". > That allowed the endnotes to use the full width of text+notemargin. > > Incidentally, why the asterisk? > With or without the asterisk, the notes get printed with their numbers. (and > they won't appear in a T.O.C.). > > Thanks again -- you have been a great help. > > Cheers, George > > > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Daron Wilson <daron.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > George, > > The LyX endnote module uses the LaTeX endnote package, and so it would > require some LaTeX hacking to change things much I think. Memoir has its own > commands to put notes at the end(it calls them pagenotes so as not to > conflict with the endnotes package). The memoir commands are not the same, > but the class does provide all the same functionality, and a little more I > believe. I've been using memoir for a short while, and so I have a little > familiarity there, and I tried to hack something up from things I found > before in the memoir manual. > > Caveats: > *I'm new to the whole LaTeX thing, so it's probably pretty ugly, and the long > way around, but it is working fine for me here (LyX 2.0 beta). > *this will only work with the memoir class because it is built on > class-specific commands. > > I wasn't sure exactly what result you wanted, but basically, what I've done > is made memoir convert footnotes to endnotes, and hang the paragraphs off of > the note numbers (I assume that is what you meant by "indented for all > lines"). There are two possible options (available by > commenting/uncommenting a few appropriate lines): either to hang the > paragraphs of of a superscript without a space, or to hang the paragraphs off > of normal text size numbers with a period and a space. > > You should be able to copy the code below straight into the preamble section > of your document settings, and then the only thing you have to do is put the > following into ERT in LyX at the end of each chapter: > > \clearpage > \printpagenotes* > > > The memoir package manual has a lot more detail on endnotes in section 17.4, > and some helpful background in chapter 12. > > Regards, > > Daron > > > > > ================================================= > > %%%%%% Depends on memoir > % tell memoir to use endnotes > \makepagenote > > % use Lyx footnote apparatus, but have memoir convert to endnotes > \foottopagenote > > % setup memoir for notes at the end of chapters > \renewcommand*{\notedivision}{\section*{\notesname}} > \renewcommand*{\pagenotesubhead}[3]{} > > % prepare a new length for the width of the note numbers; to be used > later > \newlength{\notenumberlength} > > % tell memoir to hang the paragraphs from the width of the note numbers > \renewcommand{\prenoteinnotes}{\par\noindent\hangindent\notenumberlength} > > % add some space between notes > \renewcommand{\postnoteinnotes}{\par\smallskip} > > %:====> use for hanging notes from normal text size numbers > > % tell LaTeX to reserve note number space wide enough for the number > 99. and a space, in normal font > \settowidth{\notenumberlength}{\normalfont 99.\space} > > % tell memoir to typeset the note numbers as flushright in their own box > \renewcommand*{\notenuminnotes}[1]{\makebox[\notenumberlength][r]{#1.\space}} > > > > %:====> use for hanging the notes from superscript numbers. > % tell LaTeX to reserve enough space for 99 notes, superscript size > %\settowidth{\notenumberlength}{\textsuperscript{99}} > > % tell memoir to typeset the note numbers as flushright > (rightjustified). > %\renewcommand*{\notenuminnotes}[1]{\makebox[\notenumberlength][r]{\textsuperscript{#1}}} > > ================================================= > > > > > > > > > On 7 Dec 2010, at 07:43, george legge wrote: > > > I am using Book-memoir and all the endnotes appear in the form of footnotes; > > that is, each starts with a superscript number which is indented and > > followed immediately by the endnote text. > > If there are subsequent lines for that footnote, they are not indented. > > > > This happens whether I employ "insert footnote" and the module "foot to > > end" or I employ the more recent Insert>Custom:Insets>Custom Endnote. > > I am listing endnotes at the end of each chapter. They look very odd and > > difficult to read in the form of footnotes. > > > > What is the simplest way to get the endnotes listed in the common way, > > namely: > > a normal Arabic number followed by the indented text (indented for all > > lines)? > > > > Cheers, George > > >
