On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:42 AM, <obregonma...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think people are missing the point here ... Lyx is *great* for writing and > getting references and labels right! This goes for APA journals as much as > for math/engineering journals. > > I have co-authored several articles for APA journals and the pay-off of > writing them in Lyx and then getting them into LaTeX or PDF has been > wonderful, especially as I have *not* had to make final "typo" > changes/corrections to the submitted/reviewed article before printing. > > So, *please* keep the APA6 layout and corresponding bibtex referencing > up-to-date!
Hi Mateo, John, Ray, Jacob (and everyone else), It seems APA6 is useful to a lot of people and in particular to you guys. How about we make a layout for it together then? I know absolutely nothing about APA6 (or psychology for that matter), little about layouts, and very little about document classes. But I am confident that we can do it. Look in your library directory (go to Help > About if you don't know where it is) and then go to layouts/apa.layout. Open it up. It shouldn't look too scary to you. It looks more like English to me than programming (thank you to the LyX developers who have made it look so nice and flexible). So this is an opportunity where even if you don't know/like programming, you can help out. But wait, that's not all. If we learn the LyX layout format, in addition to us making an apa6 layout (and thus helping ourselves and potentially a lot of others), we'll learn how to customize LyX layouts to our liking. This can be very useful and can make using LyX a lot more fun and personalized. The developers around here are extremely nice and generous and would help us out when we get stuck. But they are involved in a million things and it's not clear at all to me that they should stop doing those things in order to make this layout, especially when I'm sure we're capable of doing it. Who's in? Scott
