Change chapter number as displayed in LyX

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 4/15/20 7:24 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 3/27/20 12:53 PM, Matt Barnard wrote:
>> That seemed to be the case, thanks for confirming.
>> Is your patch on github? I have time now due to current events and
>> could take a look at finishing it.
>
> I can't remember if I replied to this. It turned out that I hadn't
> done much work on the patch, but I've started working on it again, and
> it ought to be pretty close. You can see what I've got here:
>
>    
> https://git.lyx.org/?p=developers/rgheck/lyx.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/features/Counters
>
> though it definitely needs some cleanup, even if it does actually work
> (which it probably doesn't). I'm hoping to work on it more over the
> next few days.
>
I did finish this patch. It is now in master and will be in 2.4.0.

Riki

On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 9:19 AM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org
<mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 3/26/20 8:55 PM, Matt Barnard wrote:
>>>     Sure, see attached. Adjusting the LyX numbering like this is
>>>     something I've found myself wanting to do a number of times.
>>
>>     Yes, the only to fix this in LyX itself would be with some LaTeX
>>     trickery of the sort you describe below. There's not currently
>>     any way to manipulate LyX's counters within the text itself. I
>>     have a partial patch that will do this kind of thing but haven't
>>     had time to finish it.
>>
>>     Riki
>>
>>
>>>
>>>     Example (attached)
>>>
>>>         \setcounter{part}{9}
>>>         Part 10 My document starts on Part 10
>>>         1 with one section
>>>         \addcontentsline{toc}{part}{*By the way,}*By the way,
>>>         This chapter is an aside, but it needs to be at the Part
>>>         level in the ToC
>>>         \setcounter{part}{9}
>>>         Part 11 then we continue with Part 10
>>>         2 but LyX says this is Part 11
>>>
>>>
>>>     Note that I resolved this for now using the following:
>>>
>>>         \newcounter{previouschapter}
>>>         \newcounter{previoussection}
>>>         \newcounter{uniquechapteranchor}
>>>         \newcommand{\pushchapter}{%
>>>           \let\previouschaptertitle\parttitle%
>>>
>>>           \setcounter{previouschapter}{\value{part}}%
>>>           \setcounter{previoussection}{\value{section}}%
>>>         }
>>>         \newcommand{\popchapter}{%
>>>           \renewcommand*{\theHpart}{\value{uniquechapteranchor}\the\value{part}} 
>>>         % for hyperref
>>>
>>>           \chapt{\value{previouschapter}}                           
>>>                % shorthand for \setcounter{part}{n-1}
>>>           \part{\previouschaptertitle~(cont.)}%
>>>           \sect{\value{previoussection}}%
>>>           \stepcounter{section}%
>>>           \stepcounter{uniquechapteranchor}%
>>>         }
>>>
>>>
>>>     and then 
>>>      
>>>
>>>         \part{Real  part  } 
>>>
>>>         \pushchapter
>>>         \part*{Interrupting part} 
>>>
>>>         \popchapter % output a new part, but don't start a new part
>>>         in LyX
>>>
>>>         \section{this is in real  part} 
>>>
>>>      
>>>     LyX continues numbering with the previous part even though I
>>>     write a new part in the output
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 4:57 PM Richard Kimberly Heck
>>>     <rikiheck at lyx.org <mailto:rikiheck at lyx.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         On 3/26/20 4:16 PM, Matt Barnard wrote:
>>>>         Hello,
>>>>
>>>>         I'm interrupting a numbered chapter with an unnumbered
>>>>         chapter, and I would like to continue sections within that
>>>>         previous numbered chapter. I've done this on the output
>>>>         side with \setcounter{part}, but in LyX the chapter number
>>>>         is still incremented.
>>>>
>>>>         I've fixed this for the first instance using the local layout
>>>>
>>>>             Counter part
>>>>
>>>>             InitialValue 12
>>>>
>>>>             End
>>>>
>>>>         but I haven't found a way to give LyX a command
>>>>         mid-document to adjust numbering.
>>>>
>>>>         Is this currently supported?
>>>>
>>>         I'm not sure I entirely understand the issue. Can you post a
>>>         very simple example file?
>>>
>>>         Riki
>>>
>>>
>>
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