frontmatter/mainmatter and numbering

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 6/15/24 08:15, Stef Pillaert wrote:
> I have a Preface ("Voorwoord" in Dutch) in frontmatter, this is 
> intended to be a non numbered chapter ("Hoofdstuk" in Dutch). This 
> chapter should be in the TOC.
> In mainmatter, the numbering of the chapters should start by "1". The 
> the first chapter is "Inleiding" (= introduction).
> The output is oke, see second screenshot: the chapter in the 
> frontmatter has no number, and is in the TOC. Also, the first chapter 
> of mainmatter has number "1".
> But is there a (not too difficult) way that LyX also shows the correct 
> numbers in front of the chapters? You can see that it puts "1" in 
> front of "Voorwoord", and the first chapter gets "2". A bit confusing...

It looks like you used a numbered section for the Voorwoord. If so, then 
of course LyX numbers it "1", and the rest go accordingly. I am guessing 
you have done that because unnumbered sections do not show up in the 
TOC. So the way to handle this would be to create a new layout that is 
both unnumbered and shows up in the TOC (or to manually add the 
Voorwoord to the TOC using ERT).


Like this:


# Marks the page headings

Style ChapterStar
     CopyStyle Chapter*
     LaTeXName chapstar
     Argument 1
         LabelString    "Page Heading"
     EndArgument
     Preamble
         \newcommand\chapstar[2][xxx]{
             \chapter*{#2}
\ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{xxx}}{\chaptermark{#2}}{\chaptermark{#1}
         }
     EndPreamble
}
End


# Also add to TOC
Style ChapStarTOC
     CopyStyle ChapterStar
     LaTeXName chapstartoc
     Preamble
         \newcommand\chapstartoc[2][xxx]{
             \chapstar[#1]{#2}
             \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{#2}
         }
     EndPreamble
End


> Or perhaps more generally: perhaps there is an easier way to deal with 
> frontmatter/mainmatter/... in LyX, hopefully without using  ERT?

There are frontmatter, etc, layouts in the Springer layouts. Probably we 
should copy those into other classes. But they're a bit hackish.


Riki

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