Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Hi all, Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: How to Use this Book Chapter 3: Introduction Tool 1: Prepare Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description Tool 4: Reproduce the Symptom Tool 5: Corrective Maintenance Chapter 4: What You've Learned I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to show up in the table of contents, it would have to print on the page headers -- it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks SteveT
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation). You'd need to do it in LaTeX. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt wrote:
it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again.
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-3.html
Both untested, both won't show in LyX.
Be warned that some things might go nuts (e.g., cross-references).
HTH,
/Konrad
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt schrieb:
Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly.
Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need
to change counters. So it would look something like this:
Chapter 1: The Brave New World
Chapter 2: Introduction
Tool 1: Prepare
Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan
Chapter 3: What You've Learned
Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description
Chapter 4: What You've Learned
Implementing this is tricky. Attached is a file where I did this. (I used the koma-script book class
because this class is the most customizable I know.)
The code is:
% define new counters
\newcounter{save}
\newcounter{tool}
% print the counter value as small Latin letter
\renewcommand{\thetool}{\alph{tool}}
% save the original chapter counter definition
\let\myChapter\thechapter
% define the new command
\newcommand{\tool}[1]{%
% set the name
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
% increase the counter
\stepcounter{tool}
% save the chapter counter
\setcounter{save}{\thechapter}
% redefine the chapter counter
\let\thechapter\thetool
% redefine the hyperlink chapter counter to have an unique anchor
\renewcommand\theHchapter{Tool-\thechapter}
% use chapter as normal
\chapter{#1}
% restore the original counter definitions and values
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Chapter}
\let\thechapter\myChapter
\setcounter{chapter}{\thesave}
\renewcommand\theHchapter{\thechapter}
}
It only works when you are using in the document settings hyperref. Although you probably already
use hyperref, you can delete all lines in the above code that contain theHchapter to make it work
without hyperref.
I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to
show up in the table of contents,
This works, but the problem is, that only the numbers of chapters appear in the TOC. Therefore I
used small Latin letters for the number of the tool. (Because parts are numbered big Roman,
appendices big Latin, so you can only decide between small Roman or small Latin.)
it would have to print on the page headers
This works without problems.
regards Uwe
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Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Hi all, Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: How to Use this Book Chapter 3: Introduction Tool 1: Prepare Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description Tool 4: Reproduce the Symptom Tool 5: Corrective Maintenance Chapter 4: What You've Learned I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to show up in the table of contents, it would have to print on the page headers -- it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks SteveT
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation). You'd need to do it in LaTeX. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt wrote:
it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again.
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-3.html
Both untested, both won't show in LyX.
Be warned that some things might go nuts (e.g., cross-references).
HTH,
/Konrad
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt schrieb:
Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly.
Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need
to change counters. So it would look something like this:
Chapter 1: The Brave New World
Chapter 2: Introduction
Tool 1: Prepare
Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan
Chapter 3: What You've Learned
Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description
Chapter 4: What You've Learned
Implementing this is tricky. Attached is a file where I did this. (I used the koma-script book class
because this class is the most customizable I know.)
The code is:
% define new counters
\newcounter{save}
\newcounter{tool}
% print the counter value as small Latin letter
\renewcommand{\thetool}{\alph{tool}}
% save the original chapter counter definition
\let\myChapter\thechapter
% define the new command
\newcommand{\tool}[1]{%
% set the name
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
% increase the counter
\stepcounter{tool}
% save the chapter counter
\setcounter{save}{\thechapter}
% redefine the chapter counter
\let\thechapter\thetool
% redefine the hyperlink chapter counter to have an unique anchor
\renewcommand\theHchapter{Tool-\thechapter}
% use chapter as normal
\chapter{#1}
% restore the original counter definitions and values
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Chapter}
\let\thechapter\myChapter
\setcounter{chapter}{\thesave}
\renewcommand\theHchapter{\thechapter}
}
It only works when you are using in the document settings hyperref. Although you probably already
use hyperref, you can delete all lines in the above code that contain theHchapter to make it work
without hyperref.
I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to
show up in the table of contents,
This works, but the problem is, that only the numbers of chapters appear in the TOC. Therefore I
used small Latin letters for the number of the tool. (Because parts are numbered big Roman,
appendices big Latin, so you can only decide between small Roman or small Latin.)
it would have to print on the page headers
This works without problems.
regards Uwe
newfile3.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Hi all, Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word "Chapter" to "Tool", and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: How to Use this Book Chapter 3: Introduction Tool 1: Prepare Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description Tool 4: Reproduce the Symptom Tool 5: Corrective Maintenance Chapter 4: What You've Learned I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to show up in the table of contents, it would have to print on the page headers -- it just seems easier to me to change the word "Chapter" to "Tool" and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. Any ideas how to do this? Thanks SteveT
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere on your system is you installed doumentation). You'd need to do it in LaTeX. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt wrote:
it just seems easier to me to change the word "Chapter" to "Tool"
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again.
Both untested, both won't show in LyX.
Be warned that some things might go nuts (e.g., cross-references).
HTH,
/Konrad
Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?
Steve Litt schrieb:
Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly.
Specifically, I'll need to change the word "Chapter" to "Tool", and I'll need
to change counters. So it would look something like this:
Chapter 1: The Brave New World
Chapter 2: Introduction
Tool 1: Prepare
Tool 2: Make a Damage Control Plan
> Chapter 3: What You've Learned
Tool 3: Get the Symptom Description
> Chapter 4: What You've Learned
Implementing this is tricky. Attached is a file where I did this. (I used the koma-script book class
because this class is the most customizable I know.)
The code is:
% define new counters
\newcounter{save}
\newcounter{tool}
% print the counter value as small Latin letter
\renewcommand{\thetool}{\alph{tool}}
% save the original chapter counter definition
\let\myChapter\thechapter
% define the new command
\newcommand{\tool}[1]{%
% set the name
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool}
% increase the counter
\stepcounter{tool}
% save the chapter counter
\setcounter{save}{\thechapter}
% redefine the chapter counter
\let\thechapter\thetool
% redefine the hyperlink chapter counter to have an unique anchor
\renewcommand\theHchapter{Tool-\thechapter}
% use chapter as normal
\chapter{#1}
% restore the original counter definitions and values
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Chapter}
\let\thechapter\myChapter
\setcounter{chapter}{\thesave}
\renewcommand\theHchapter{\thechapter}
}
It only works when you are using in the document settings "hyperref". Although you probably already
use hyperref, you can delete all lines in the above code that contain "theHchapter" to make it work
without hyperref.
I spoze I could make Tool a whole different environment, but it would have to
show up in the table of contents,
This works, but the problem is, that only the numbers of chapters appear in the TOC. Therefore I
used small Latin letters for the number of the tool. (Because parts are numbered big Roman,
appendices big Latin, so you can only decide between small Roman or small Latin.)
it would have to print on the page headers
This works without problems.
regards Uwe
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