LyX ⇒ Excercises numbered by Section

[petergggg]

Hello there

I've only just discovered LyX, so please keep any answers nice and simple.

I'm trying to write an introductory physics tutorial to include numbered exercises/problems, the solutions of which will be at the end of the document. I'm using the 'article' document class, though I'm happy to change that.

The document will include about half a dozen sections, each section probably divided into subsections, subsubsections etc. In each section I'd like to include several exercises/problems for the student to solve. I'd like the exercises to be section numbered only, eg Exercise 1.1, Exercise 1.2, Exercise 1.3 etc (for section 1); Exercise 2.1, Exercise 2.2, Exercise 2.3 etc (for section 2), ie I don't want the exercises to be numbered 1.2.1 referring to the subsections, or 1.2.1.5 referring to the subsubsections. I don't need that degree of complexity.

Is there a straightforward way of doing this? Forgive me if I've missed the blindingly obvious.

Thank you

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

it depends on how you create the exercises/problems. What do you use for it? theorem environments perhaps? This would be a good choice.

The chngcntr package can be used to customize the numbering. Without further details about your document, such as a code example, it's hard to say more.

Stefan

[petergggg]

Stefan

I'm struggling here. I've opened the MikTex Package Manager and installed chngcntr plus several other addons that looked interesting. I've restarted Lyx, but I can't see any reference to chngcntr, though I'm not sure I'm looking in the right place. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Peter