LyX ⇒ Edit headers in memoir class

[oldmankit]

I'm using memoir class and trying to edit the headers and footers. I want to do two things. I can live without 2), as I can do it manually. However, 1) is necessary.

1) I'm happy with 'ruled' except I want \leftmark to be 'part' and \rightmark to be 'chapter'. First I tried using 'myheadings' in document>>settings>>page layout>>headings style. I then copied and pasted the latex code for 'ruled' from the memoir manual but changed chapter to part, and section to chapter.

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\makepsmarks{myheadings}{%
\nouppercaseheads
\createmark{part}{left}{shownumber}{}{. \space}
\createmark{chapter}{right}{nonumber}{}{}
\createplainmark{toc}{both}{\contentsname}
\createplainmark{lof}{both}{\listfigurename}
\createplainmark{lot}{both}{\listtablename}
\createplainmark{bib}{both}{\bibname}
\createplainmark{index}{both}{\indexname}
\createplainmark{glossary}{both}{\glossaryname}
}

\makepagestyle{myheadings}
\makeevenfoot{myheadings}{\thepage}{}{<draft>} % page numbers at the outside
\makeoddfoot{myheadings}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeheadrule{myheadings}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\makeevenhead{myheadings}{\scshape\leftmark}{}{} % small caps
\makeoddhead{myheadings}{}{}{\rightmark}

Everything works except it is not getting the leftmark or rightmark in. I can't understand why not. When I tried using the 'ruled' style instead of 'myheadings', it simply did not take any notice of my changes to leftmark or rightmark. It called the old one (chapter+section).

2) I want to use 'empty' pagestyle for any pages with floats on. There is a way to do this in memoir, see page 128 of the manual. I thought the best way to do this would be to stick with 'myheadings' as the pagestyle, and then use a modified 'ruled' for pages without floats, and 'empty' for pages with floats.

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\mergepagefloatstyle{myheadings}{ruled}{empty}

It didn't work though. It doesn't detect any floats at all, so the whole document uses 'ruled'.

I have attached my test .lyx file, if that is any help.

As an aside, how do I redefine \bigskip? I want to make it bigger.

I really appreciate any help.

[meho_r]

1. Try reversing the order of \makepagestyle and \makepsmarks. Here's your code reordered (I'm using the code from your .lyx file):

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\makepagestyle{ruled}
\makeevenfoot{ruled}{\thepage}{}{<draft>} % page numbers at the outside
\makeoddfoot{ruled}{}{}{\thepage}
\makeheadrule{ruled}{\textwidth}{\normalrulethickness}
\makeevenhead{ruled}{\scshape\leftmark}{}{} % small caps
\makeoddhead{ruled}{}{}{\rightmark}

\makepsmarks{ruled}{%
\nouppercaseheads
\createmark{part}{left}{shownumber}{}{. \space}
\createmark{chapter}{right}{nonumber}{}{}
\createplainmark{toc}{both}{\contentsname}
\createplainmark{lof}{both}{\listfigurename}
\createplainmark{lot}{both}{\listtablename}
\createplainmark{bib}{both}{\bibname}
\createplainmark{index}{both}{\indexname}
\createplainmark{glossary}{both}{\glossaryname}
}

\mergepagefloatstyle{ruled}{ruled}{empty}

\pagestyle{ruled}

2. Page style for floats does work, but notice that it works only for "float pages", i.e., pages containing floats only. So, if you remove "And now for a float!" sentence placed just before the figure, you'll get an empty page style for the page the figure is on.

3. Don't forget to activate ruled page style after (re)definition:

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\pagestyle{ruled}

[oldmankit]

Thank you so much, it's now working fine.

[localghost]

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Thorsten