Have you seen jurabib? The guy who maintains it--Jens Berger--is quite the
accomodating guy. I was frustrated that the achicago style did part of what I
needed, while jurabib did the other part. So I mailed him, and within 24 hours
he mailed me a custom bst.
Jurabib is designed for legal use, with additional support for the
"humanitites". I bet he would jump at the opportunity to expand his project.
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> Then I do not stand alone. I too, am a LyX fan. I will be taking the bar
> soon and
> then go into my own practice and I seem to be doomed to using a
> different (less
> than optimal) program for legal writing. Unfortuntely, I do not have the
> know-how
> or the time right now to develop a set of legal document class' that
> will fill the
> bill for the peculiar legal formats required for the courts here in the
> United
> States.
>
> I would be willing to help on a limited basis (Maybe Dave would too???)
> if there
> was some kind soul out there who would undertake such a project. I
> really do not
> like "being forced" to use the word-processors that the legal community
> seem to use
> exclusively (MS-Word and Corel Word Perfect). There should be
> alternatives. It
> would be great if one of those alternatives was my favorite document
> processor...the one and only LyX.
>
> Shawn Koons
>
>
>
> Dave Tweten wrote:
>
> > I searched the LyX Users archives in vain for a reference to a LyX
> template or
> > layout file for U.S. legal briefs, with their peculiar title pages and
>
> > reference formats. I saw another question like mine in the archives,
> but no
> > answers.
> >
> > Is there no help for a LyX fan who finds himself needing to write an
> > arbitration brief?
> > --
> >
> > We each earn what freedom of speech we defend for those who most
> offend us.
>
> --
> Mitakuye Oyasin
> --
