>>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:29:11 +0200 >>From: Lars Risan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>CC: Martin Adorni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Bibliography >> >> >>> > >>> > Well, I'm not familiar with bibtex. I thought there might be a smart >>> > option implemented in Lyx. I will use bibtex now. >>> >>> it's easy: >>> >>> http://www.lyx.org/help/bibtex/bibtex-start.php >>> >>> Herbert >>> >> >>Hi, am in the same situation as Martin. And I found that bibtex-files >>are easy. But they seem to lack one feature that the bibliography of Lyx >>has: Writing your own "labels" rather than using the numbers "[1]". (and >>I am talking about this feature: >> >>\bibitem [Haraway, 1989]{Primate_Visions} >> >>) >> >>Anybody who knows if it is possible to insert such labels in .bib files?
That's precisely what BibTeX allows: decouple the absolute bibliometric info in the database from its layout in the document, so that what you ask is possible in BibTeX by changing the style in the Lyx citation tag, but the reverse is much more complicated if you're asked to change bibtem ([Har89] e.g.instead of [Haraway, 1989]. These kinds of labels (and the way they are reflected in the text itself) are produced by natbib.bst and harvard.bst and teh associated .sty files as far as I remember. The bibtex pass produces a .bbl file which is exactly what you would have written inline, and which you may hack in some difficult cases. You may write your own .bst file (thats the suffix of the layout style program used) but it's a bit uneasy as it is written a postindexed syntax, and most of the layouts required in various journals are already available. I don't remember one situation where is is better to use inline citation rather than BibTeX, so a good idea would perhaps to wipe out completely the inline citation facility in LyX :-) The only drawback is to learn a little bit of BibTeX syntax to make sure that author names are sorted and printed all right, and to have a correct result for acronyms in titles so that no information ins lost in the database which can be published, shared, and so on. -- Jean-Pierre
