Solved, Page numbers not showing in place
Melvin Bolton
melvinbolton at bigpond.com
Wed Dec 1 02:34:50 UTC 2021
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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