Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Mike Barnsley]

Francesco,

Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in the
manual. Any help would be appreciated.
  
One route is to use the acronym package, by inserting 
\usepackage{acronym} in your preamble. References to specific acronyms 
can then be inserted in the text as ERTs, e.g. \ac{TLA}. At the end of 
the document, in another ERT insert, you need to add the corresponding 
list of acronym definitions, e.g.


\begin{acronym}
\acro{TLA}{Three Letter Acronym}
\end{acronym}

The default behaviour is that for the first occasion on which the 
acronym is referenced the acronym will be shown in full, i.e. Three 
Letter Acronym (TLA). Thereafter only the abbreviated form is given, 
i.e. TLA. It's possible to control this behaviour. For instance, 
\acf{TLA} repeats the full definition, \acs{TLA) forces the use of the 
abbreviated form, and \acp{TLA} gives the output as Three Letter 
Acronyms or TLAs depending on whether this is the first or subsequent 
time that the acronym has been referenced.


I keep a separate LaTeX file containing all of the acronyms that I 
commonly use and include this at the end of the document that I'm 
writing, calling the acronym package as follows, 
\usepackage[printonlyused]{acronym}. This prints out only those acronyms 
used in the body of the text.


The latest version of the acronym package can be found at 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acronym/.


Good luck,

Mike

Re: acronyms in Lyx

[Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski]

Ciao,

I did it with the nomencl package. To add an entry I inserted an ERT

\nomenclature{bla}{short form for blablablabla}

Finally, put an ERT

\printnomenclature

where you want to have the list.

To generate my doc including the nomenclature, I failed to convince LyX to  
do that for me. I wrote a script:


#!/bin/bash
lyx --export latex thesis.lyx
latex thesis
bibtex thesis
makeindex thesis.idx
makeindex thesis.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o thesis.nls
latex thesis
latex thesis
dvipdf thesis.dvi

In this case, the essential line is the makeindex with the nomencl.ist and  
so on ...


Well, I have to confess, it could be easier but it works when I do it  
like this.


HTH,

Cz.


On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:46:56 +0200, Francesco  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Hi I'm trying to use Lyx to write an article and I need to  
introduce/define some
acronyms. How am I supposed to do it? Do I need to write latex code  
within the
text? Isn't there a simpler way? Unfortunately I didn't find anything in  
the

manual. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks and regards
Francesco





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