LyX ⇒ [Lyx 1.6.3] Numbering pages

[miro99]

Hi,
first of all I apologize for my english...
I'm writing my thesis using Lyx 1.6.3 and I am occurred in a great problem: Lyx starts numbering the document from the first page while I need the first numbered page is the Introduction (actually page 5).
How I could resolve this? I read something about the use of \pagestyle but I cannot modify the source code from Lyx. Is there a folder where I can find a .txt version of my document that I could modify?

Thank you so much for the support

Alessandro

[meho_r]

Simply put in the Preamble of you document (Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble) the following code:

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\addtocounter{page}{4}

Change the number according to your needs.

BTW, you may enter LaTeX commands in your document using ERT box (Ctrl+L). So, the alternative way of changing page numbers is entering above command in ERT box on the page from which you want numbers increased. This is useful if you use \frontmatter and \mainmatter in your documents.

The above command adds specified number to the existing counter, so the result of the command is: 1+4=5. You may use another command instead, \setcounter to set the current page number to a desired value, e.g.

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\setcounter{page}{5}

This will give the same result as the first command. You may use this command in the Preamble or in ERT box directly inside your document, as you like.

[miro99]

Hi meho_r,
thank you so much for your help. I finally resolve my numerbering pages problem!

[amplifier]

Hi there,

I searched the forum to fix a problem I have with the page numbering in Lyx, and found this thread. But when I follow the instructions, I get another result.

Lyx starts numbering the document from the first page while I need the first numbered page is the Introduction (actually page 5).

to fix that meho_r recommended:

Simply put in the Preamble of you document (Document > Settings > LaTeX Preamble) the following code:

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    \addtocounter{page}{4}

Change the number according to your needs.

When I do that, numbering starts on the very first page with the pagenumber 5. Is there a way to make Lyx hide the first, let's say 4 pagenumbers?

Thanks a lot!
Amp

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Amp,

it would be better to begin a new topic instead of continuing an old one. A link to the ealier question would be good then.

You can suppress page numbering by choosing another page style for those first pages, or use the command

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\pagenumbering{gobble}

at the beginning and

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\pagenumbering{arabic}

later on. Afterwards you could modify the page counter as above.

Stefan