LyX ⇒ Several Problems: Not recognising ' or °, page numbers....

[peljam]

Several Problems: Not recognising ' or ° when exporting to certain pdf's, adding lines to .png figures, not putting page number on every page

First of all apologies if these issues are answered elsewhere. I have looked but I've found little that seems to directly relate to the issues I've been having.

Background:

I've used Lyx for writing my thesis (using book class). When I submitted originally I was using 1.6 and it all went fine. Since submitting and sitting my viva I've had to update to 2.0, and have lost the most recent version of the thesis in a crash (careless I know). The version I had backed up was the penultimate version though so it was only content issues rather than settings that I had to update, or so I thought.

I've been putting my corrections together using 2.0 but I'm running up against some problems. Some of them are probably simple and I'm just being dense. Others are just mystifying me.

Problem 1:
In my original document after the contents I had a page number in the bottom centre of the page for every page. Now for some reason I only have a page number for the start of each chapter or element of the table of contents (abstract, appendices etc.)

This might a simple issue but I don’t seem to be able to find anything that will do the job. I’d just like every page from the abstract onwards to be numbered.

Problem 2:
This issue depends on what type of pdf I export to. I will double check this when I get home but if I have the document set as double paged and export to pdflatex then everything is fine. If I want single paged, or a different pdf format when it exports it doesn’t recognise the ‘ or ° symbols. It will create the pdf but those symbols will just be missing in the case of ‘ or replaced with an r for the °.

I know an easy solution would be to ignore the single paged option but I would like two versions, single paged for the examiner, double for the printing. I can’t simply use pdflatex on singlepaged because I get error messages. When I get home I’ll stick some of the error message up but I’m fairly sure it is not recognising the ‘

Problem 3:
When I export as a single page pdf for some reason some of my figures are getting a dark line added to the right of them, like a border line but incomplete. The figures are all .png format and obviously don’t have the line to begin with. Also, confusingly, if I export as a double paged document the lines aren’t present.

Sorry for the wall of text. I will add more detail when I get back home from work about the error messages and my preamble. If anyone could help (especially with problem 1) I would appreciate it. Problem 1 is my priority, solving problems 2 and 3 would be nice because they’re just confusing as to why they are happening.

At the moment the formatting and symbol issues are all that are stopping me from handing my corrections in.

Thanks,
Pel

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Pel,

welcome to the board!

Several Problems:
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Sorry for the wall of text.

It would be better if you create one topic for each problem. So it would be more easily digestible. Still open issues would be better visible. And people, who stumple across here, googling for solutions, can easier understand what happened, instead of browsing a thread where several issues and answers are mixed.

Regarding the first and main problem, I guess you would like to globally set the plain pagestyle, which is the default for the first page of a chapter. This could be set by a LyX setting, or by

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\pagestyle{plain}

in the document preamble (LyX main menu: Document/Settings).

Stefan

[peljam]

Thanks Stefan, I'll give that a go. I'll break this post down into seperate issues as well.

EDIT:

That has worked perfectly! Thank you very much. I just have to supress the numbers for the title page but I've seen instructions for that around so I'll follow those. Thank you very much!