LyX ⇒ TOC, List of Figs, List of Tables - all roman numerals

[Cavelcade]

Hi all,

I am currently doing the last touching up on my thesis and there is literally just one last thing I am unhappy with - the numbering of the frontmatter. I am using the standard thesis style that comes with the LyX 2.0 package, with the chapters in child documents etc, and it all works perfectly.

But when I output to pdf, the numbering goes:

FRONT PAGE: No number (Good!)

FIRST CONTENTS PAGE: i - good.
SECOND CONTENTS PAGE: ii - very good!

List of figures page - 1. That's bad.
List of tables page - 2. That's bad, too.

Page 1 of the thesis main matter- 3. That's not what I want at all!


What I'd like it to be is:


FRONT PAGE: No number (Good!)

FIRST CONTENTS PAGE: i - good.
SECOND CONTENTS PAGE: ii - very good!

List of figures page - iii That's bad.
List of tables page - iv. That's bad, too.

Page 1 of the thesis - 1. That's not what I want at all!


Is there a simple way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

[Cavelcade]

Through some (sometimes painful) trial and error, it's been resolved. Thanks to the forum posts that helped me out!

[Cavelcade]

To save anyone else the trouble of dealing with this issue as well, here was the work around I found (which also avoids issues of random pages showing up where they shouldn't be).

I had to move the ERT inset containing the \pagestyle{fancy} above the Table of Contents.
Then between the TOC and the List of Figures (which I had before the list of tables) I put the following in an ERT redbox.

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\clearpage
\pagenumbering{roman}
\setcounter{page}{4}

My TOC was 3 pages long, hence starting at 4 for the rest...

I also wanted a blank page between my Acknowledgements and the start of my material, so I entered the following in an ERT between that and the chapter 1 child document:

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\thispagestyle{empty}
\newpage

Below this, I entered a force space with ctrl+spacebar and then after that entered the following ERT

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\newpage

To set the pagecount at the start of Chapter 1 back to 1 and back to arabic numerals, I opened the child document and went to just above the first paragraph and entered the following ERT:

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\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{arabic}

This has the formatting exactly the way I want it.

[sakisgw3]

I noticed that no one has replied to your thread and since it actully helped me with the very same problem, I've go to thank you! Worked like a charm!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi sakisgw3,

welcome to the forum! Thanks for confirming the solution. With ERT, anything is possible.
Maybe next time when you notice an issue, we can help you too. Or you us.

Stefan