People, please, isn't really any way of controlling the spacing between colums? I have to print the document tomorrow :(
2008/12/14 Luca De Marini <luca.darkmas...@gmail.com> > Hallo everyone... this is getting me reaaaaally tired :( On my computer > bibliography works like a charm and it really is so nice to use and see, but > today I finally managed to have my girlfriend stay sitted on the damned > chair, to explain her how to use it and, of course, it didn't work :( > You know, when you have to show something cool to someone important, well, > it simply doesn't work having you look like a stupid geek or something. > > Well, now, the problem is that I followed the same steps you showed me > before with her computer too, so, no jokes. > I start by telling you I installed Lyx 1.6 over 1.5 as I did on my computer > previously too (and on my mac it works nice, oh, we both have a mac). > > So, the first strange this is that when I insert the bibliography from the > Insert menu, after I successfully load my Jabref database, in Style I see > plainat of course, but I want apalike. So I click on the menu and... > ta-daaaan!! There's only plainat... why the heck?! So I downloaded from the > tex site the apalike package and manually browsed for that one. It shouldn't > be necessary though, this is a problem, on my mac I see a huge number of > entries already available!! (In case you where guessing, on both computers I > installed the full 200+ MB Text distribution).. > > Then, when, in any part of the text body I try to insert a reference, > choose only numerical [#ID] and try to generate a pdf, I see no bibliography > at all at the end of the document and instead of the reference number only a > bastard "?".... question mark without quotes... > > Of course, and that's cute, if I use the super option, the question mark is > little over the words :) > How sweeeeet... > Please help me people. > I tried everything I got. That is: > > > - Removed and reinstalled Lyx. > - re-executed the installer several times > - eliminated the preferences folder so that lyx could create a new > preferences folder by itself > - tried the all thing on a new document > - reinstalled the LATEX distribution package > > > Nothing worked and honestly I'm out of ideas... :( > Greetings, > > Luca D.M. > > 2008/12/12 rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> > > Luca De Marini wrote: >> >>> Thanks to everyone, reading the documents you linked, I managed to obtain >>> the exact result I needed. Basically, I searched the wiki and never found >>> the illustrated guide Dominik linked :) >>> With that guide and using JabRef, as suggested by rgheck, I have now a >>> fully >>> setted and working bibliography for my own test document and will now >>> teach >>> my girlfriend how to achieve the same result :) >>> Very nice, thanks a lot! But it is only perfect if used in combination >>> with >>> the super command suggested by rgheck :) >>> It should be added to the illustrated guide indeed, in my opinion. >>> >>> >>> >> You might want ot have a look now at the documentation for natbib, which >> you'll find here: >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/natbib/natbib.pdf >> and probably in natbib.dvi or natbib.pdf somewhere on your own machine. >> There are lots of other options that can be used. >> >> rh >> >> >
