Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply. It gives me a few ideas on where to dig for more info.
I suppose what I am trying to do is to create something like a simple journal. I would like to tie a handful of papers together into a single document (with contiguous page numbering) and have a few introductory pages at the start. Each of the papers will have its own title/abstract/bibliography. Do you think something like this is possible? Or should I be manually editing the first page number in each paper and generating them as separate LyX files? Thanks, Ken On 15 November 2010 18:20, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 11/15/2010 01:03 PM, Ken wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like to create a document which contains a few pages of info >> followed by three papers. >> >> That is, each of the three papers should be its own complete paper >> (with its own title, abstract, the document with tables and figures, >> footnotes, and its own bibliography). In front of these papers I >> would like a title page followed by some introductory information and >> a table of contents (for tables and figures) across the three papers. >> Page numbers across the three documents should not reset but the >> section numbers with in each document should. >> >> I have put together a simple master.lyx file and inside I have >> included the child documents test1.lyx, test2.lyx, and test3.lyx. >> However, the bibilography in each paper is not unique to that paper >> and the title of each paper is included as standard text. >> >> Can anyone point me in the right direction for understanding Child >> Documents in LyX and how to achieve this? >> > This isn't really how child documents are meant to be used; perhaps the > terminology is > misleading. Anyway, "child documents" are really just a kind of included > file, and when they > are used that way, they do not generate their own preamble, titlepage, etc. > > I'm not sure, though, precisely what you are trying to do here. Would it be > possible simply > to treat these papers as chapters? Or do they have separate authors and the > like? If you could > treat them as chapters, then it sounds as if the main issue is the > bibliography. To solve that, you > can use the bibtopic package, which is briefly discussed in section 3.1.3 of > the Additional > Features manual. > > If you really do want the "chapters" to be separate papers, or whatever, > then LyX does not > provide support for this. That said, however, this topic came up before, and > I seem to > remember that there is a LaTeX package that you can use to do this kind of > thing, but I do > not remember what it was called. Since LyX does not include support for it, > you would need > to use LyX to produce the various documents, then export them to LaTeX and > do the final > work on the .tex files. > > Richard > >
