misc. bib questions
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry? 2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another?
Re: misc. bib questions
>>From: Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: misc. bib questions >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:16 -0600 >> >>1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry? >> Maybe using latin1 input encoding and typing in the symbol ? >>2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another? This is not possible, but you can concatenate bib files by giving the names separated by commas in the field. -- Jean-Pierre
Re: misc. bib questions
* Jean-Pierre.Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010328 12:03 +0200: > >>From: Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another? > > This is not possible, but you can concatenate bib files > by giving the names separated by commas in the field. > > -- > Jean-Pierre If you do so: wrong: bib1, bib2 right: bib1,bib2 No space must follow the comma(s). Andre Berger[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Re: misc. bib questions
>>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:55:33 +0200 >>From: Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: misc. bib questions >>Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i >>Mail-Copies-To: nobody >> >>* Jean-Pierre.Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010328 12:03 +0200: >>> >>From: Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another? >>> >>> This is not possible, but you can concatenate bib files >>> by giving the names separated by commas in the field. >>> >>> -- >>> Jean-Pierre >> >>If you do so: >> >>wrong: >>bib1, bib2 >>right: >>bib1,bib2 >> >>No space must follow the comma(s). I'm afraid thats this is a LaTeX « feature »... Sure that LyX could filter it out. -- Jean-Pierre
Re: misc. bib questions
Sorry if the question was stupid or obvious... I know lots about some stuff and nothing about other stuff. I Don't have time to be an expert... and sometimes I don't know where in the documentation to look. One thing I still don't understand is encoding. Thanks for the response. On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > >>From: Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: misc. bib questions > >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:16 -0600 > >> > >>1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry? > >> > Maybe using latin1 input encoding and typing in the symbol ? > > >>2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another? > > This is not possible, but you can concatenate bib files > by giving the names separated by commas in the field. > > -- > Jean-Pierre
Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol -anywhere-. The answer to my question was, "Maybe using latin1 input encoding and typing in the symbol ?" My keyboard does not have a key with that symbol on it. No key combination I try produces it. I used a font viewer to try to find the font that includes the symbol. For each font, I typed every key combination. Nothing produced the symbol. I do have encoding in set to Latin1 in LyX. But I can't "just type the symbol" if I don't know what keys to press. Clearly, the answer is supposed to be obvious. Nevertheless, I need a useful answer, or at least a helpful clue.
Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
Christopher Jones writes: I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol -anywhere-. You don't say what operating system you're using, but on a Solaris-Sparc machine, s o -> §, the section symbol. Most of the characters that are not on the keyboard are similarly mnemonic: p ! -> ¶, the paragraph sign; 1 2 -> ½, l = -> £, etc. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
Sorry. Linux (Mandrake). On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones writes: > > I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up > 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit > more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol > -anywhere-. > > You don't say what operating system you're using, but on a > Solaris-Sparc machine, s o -> §, the section symbol. Most > of the characters that are not on the keyboard are similarly mnemonic: > p ! -> ¶, the paragraph sign; 1 2 -> ½, > l = -> £, etc. > > -- > > Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
Christopher Jones wrote: > > I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up > 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit > more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol in Latex it's \S and it should work in bibtex databases, too Herbert -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up > > 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit > > more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol > > in Latex it's \S > and it should work in bibtex databases, too > > Herbert > > > -- > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ronald Florence wrote:
> more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol
> -anywhere-.
One solution is to write a small program in C or Perl that prints all
characters, and then copy and paste the correct character in your
document. Type the following in file chars.c:
#include
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int i;
for (i=32; i<256; i++) putchar(i);
putchar('\n');
return 0;
}
Compile it with command
cc chars.c -o chars
And run with command
./chars
Then just pick up the correct character and paste it into LyX.
Btw, a dialog that would display _all_ possible characters from some
font and the user could pick up them with mouse, would be nice for LyX.
