Some hints on using Sixpack with Lyx and to convert Endnote files to bibtex
Exeptionally I don´t have a question, but some hints on using Sixpack with Lyx and converting Endnote files to bibtex: I had the problem to convert a big amount of citations, I already entered in Endnote, to bibtex. The export filter I found at ISI´s Homepage didn´t work, thus I did one by my own, which you can find attached to this mail. The problem I couldn´t fix in Endnote was, that the created CiteIDs (author,year,title) contained blanks and Umlauts, which cause errors in the bibtex-file. Thus I used Sixpack´s automatic CiteID-creation feature to do this. For this, you have to edit the line "CITEID = Lachman ... " in the file /etc/sixpack.rc to your needs. The examples shown in this file for doing this contain a ":" like "CITEID = Lachmann,98,:,Introduction to produce Citeids for". ^ With this ":" the pipe feature (look at Sixpack´s howto to enable this) doesn´t work, thus you have to change the ":" to "-" or delete it completely: "CITEID = Lachmann,98,Introduction to produce Citeids for" (You have to restart Sixpack to enable the new CiteID-style!!) Another disadvantage is the creation of doubled IDs, which you have to change by hand (use Edit->Mark Doubled CiteIDs). You also have to watch out for Umlauts, "ß" or "," in the CiteID, which also causes errors and are not been checked by Sixpack. You can do this by opening the file with Pybliographer, which does some spellchecking. Maybe someone has another idea, how to do this, but this way worked fine with me. You can check the created bib-file (Transfer->Export->Export Bibtex, watch out for the *.bib in the path!) by typing \nocite* (ERT) within Lyx, like written elsewhere. Andi BibTeX Lyx Export.ens
Bibtex reference with linebreaks
I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked around and couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one of yours could help me out: I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for Lyx. Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created reference. I need a reference style, that looks like A. Dödel, B. Dada The secrets of the secrets Secret Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999) but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example gerplain works fine with me, exept for the missing linebreaks. I did some dummy-style-hacking, but I only got a linebreak behind the author´s name, that´s because I´m not used to the programming language and I hope I don´t need to understand it completely (if there is a ready-to-go-style ). Thus I looked at www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html and a bunch of other sites, but I couldn´t find any linebreak-style or information, how to add these linebreaks. Could somebody point me to a location, there I can find a bibtex mailing list or style-hacking howtos (for low level hackers)? Thanks Andi
Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work
If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables. I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this mailing list: I have a table of three column and one row. 1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm 2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using Layout-Paragraph-Extra. But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option. Thus I downloaded the expamle file from http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed, when opening the file. Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest. Thanks in advance Andi
Fwd: Float caption beside figure
The common behaviour of positioning the caption of a figure-float is below the figure, which doesn´t look very nice for small pictures. I wanted to put the caption on the right side of the figure like 22Figure 1: Blabla 222figure2 22 So I tried > it's the same situation like two figures or two tables or the > combination of them: > 1. open wide float > 2. insert caption and float as usual > 3. put cursor left or right from image > 4. layout->paragraph->extra->Minipage > and Begin new Minipage (only needed, > when caption under image, but it's > a good thing to do it anyway) > 5. put cursor inside caption line > 4. layout->paragraph->extra->Minipage > and Begin new Minipage > and hfill between minipage paragraphs ^ like Herbert Voss told in this mailing list. But if I do it that way, the caption is not positioned on the right top, but on the right bottom. Posistioning in the paragraph->more-menu doesn´t work. It looks like there is no connection between the caption and the figure, thus a completely new minipage is created below the figure-minipage containing the caption, like 22 222figure2 22 Figure 1: Bla What do I wrong? Andi
Different numbering for chemical reaction and numerical equation
During writing my thesis I ran into this problem: I use chemical reactions and numerical equations in the text. The problem is, to number the different equations in a different way, like: 1+1=2(2.1) 1+2=3(2.2) but for chemical reaction something like C+O2->CO2(R. 2.1) and so on. The equations and reactions are written in math-mode and the automatic numbering was done by using M-m n. Thanks in advance Andi
