Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: > Shrug. Taste's differ. Change \textit to \magazine_style and define > \magazine_style as you choose in the preamble of the document. No, that is not what I meant -- try to imagine, that I will finally get fed up with the slowness of LyX development and if (or when) OpenOffic

List of tables, figres, and footnotes for article submission

2005-05-05 Thread Leonid Belostotski
Hello This is an addition to my own question I asked a yesterday. I found a WIKI page (http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/RedefiningListOfFigures) that deals with refining the lest of figures. I am trying to follow the description by starting Latex and then running \documentclass{article} BTW, I use article

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Matej Cepl wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >>> \textit{\cite{cicerone}} >> >> Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? >> >> @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} > > Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any > non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Angus Leeming wrote: >> \textit{\cite{cicerone}} > > Really? Why not do that in the BibTeX database? > > @String{BAUHAUS = {\textit{Das Bauhaus}}} Because I do not think it is wise to put presentation markup (or any non-database markup for that matter) into BibTeX database. Matěj -- Matej Cep

Issues with Table of Contents

2005-05-05 Thread George Leach
Hello fellow LyX users, I'm currently heading for a last minute deadline and have found a couple of small hitches with my document in LyX. I was hoping I might get some help (one can but try). If people would like to see the document before commenting please just ask and I'll be willing to send

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Brian Williams wrote: Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left squiggl

line numbers in Lyx?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(my day for questions) I have trouble keeping track of where I am in Lyx and think it would be really nice to have line numbers available -- either on the left, or simply a current line number below the document window (like vim does). I know that these would be changeable and not correspond to

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. but there's no gui for it. Jürgen

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle > > \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Really? I see it in src/frontends/controllers/biblio.C. -- Angus

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: >> Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) >> >> Seriously. >> >> As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want "out of the >> box". LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd >> suggest that you could

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle \citetitle not (natively), I'm afraid. Jürgen

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) > > > > Is there a way that I can do this: > > > > Find: "My text to replace" > > Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] > > > > -Kevin > > Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you

Re: [slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Matej Cepl
Meri Williams wrote: > Hi Todd -- thanks for the advice. I do already have versions saved > which still work as intended, I just can't see any difference in the > config! I don't particularly want to have to go back and retype > anything, but if it's necessary I can do so. I was just hoping there >

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: > Another way would be to use BibTeX and some black magic :) > > Seriously. > > As Jürgen says, the jurabib package can do what you want "out of the > box". LyX 1.4.x will support jurabib and \citetitle, but for now I'd > suggest that you could set things up in LyX to use natb

Re: find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > (Starting a new thread to keep things clear) > > Is there a way that I can do this: > > Find: "My text to replace" > Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] > > -Kevin Not within LyX. Outside LyX it's trivial because you're just replacing one string with ano

find/replace with lyx objects (such as ERTs, footnotes, etc.)

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
(Starting a new thread to keep things clear) Is there a way that I can do this: Find: "My text to replace" Replace with: [an ERT container and its contents] -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Andrew Sullivan writes: >> Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with >> such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever >> your style tells it to. I don't understand the software >> completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: > Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with > such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX will do whatever > your style tells it to. I don't understand the software > completely yet, so I may be totally off the mark here.) Yes, I'm sure (hah)

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:11:38PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Jurabib has > > "The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written ...". But LyX doesn't support this > natively. Couldn't you make a BibTeX style that'd do it? (I'm fiddling with such styles lately anyway, and it seems that LyX wi

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Angus Leeming writes: > I think that I'd use ERT. See attached. I looked at this and it works fine, but I don't see it as being very practical as there are dozens and more of such references. Another pitfall I see is that many of the footnotes are truly citations and some even repeat; therefore

Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - addendum

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Ekkehart Schlicht wrote: If I export the file as Latex and compile with pdflatex (4 times), I get the desired output. If I open the lyx file in Lyx, after having done the latex compilation I can compile nicely as well. Ekkehart

Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex

2005-05-05 Thread Ekkehart Schlicht
Hi, If I want to view the Lyx file I am working at with pdflatex, I always get the message 3 errors detected. You should try to fix them. The error messages are 1. LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. 2. and 3. Extra \else. I'm ignoring this; it doesn't match any \if. If I omit

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I like this idea, but do not know how to get: > > "The book, My Title Here, was written..." > > instead of: > > "The book, [1], was written..." Jurabib has "The book, \citetitle{mybook}, was written ...". But LyX doesn't support this natively. Jürgen

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Andrew Sullivan writes: > Isn't this just what BibTeX is for (maybe I don't understand your > problem). I like this idea, but do not know how to get: "The book, My Title Here, was written..." instead of: "The book, [1], was written..." I assume that this has something to do with the style of

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Smith
On 5/5/05, Brian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of > entering this construct for entering a system of equations: > > $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} > \\\end{array}\right.$ > > Currently I achieve this by using the Math p

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
> Meri, > I know it may be a bit too late for you now, but I have found that by > keeping my lyx files in RCS/CVS/some SCM system, if something goes a little > strange it makes figuring out what a lot easier. LyX makes doing so fairly > easy on a unix system with RCS installed, just pick > file->'

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Johan Ingvast
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Angus Leeming wrote: > > An alternative suggestion to your original problem: use Insert->Label > inside your notes and navigate using the Insert->Cross Reference dialog. > If you start each label as "nb: foo", it'll be trivial to find 'em. > > There is an alternative way o

[slightly OT response] to Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Todd Denniston
Meri Williams wrote: > > Hi > > I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. > > Sometime this evening when I was editing the > document, the citations changed to numbers and so did the > Bibliography!! > > I am completely confused. I haven't knowingly changed anything -- both > the

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Me, again. :-) > > The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, > works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could > cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or > title changes, or something with the s

Re: working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 01:41:22PM +0200, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > Is there a way to structurally identify such objects such that when later > we should find out that the publication was not called "Der Cicerone" but > rather "Das Bologne" or something, that I can update all 364 mentions of >

Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Brian Williams
Hi, Hope this isn't too simple I'd like to define a quick way in Lyx of entering this construct for entering a system of equations: $\left\{ \begin{array}{r} \\\end{array}\right.$ Currently I achieve this by using the Math panel to insert an unmatched left squiggly brace, then a 2 x

Re: What is beamer?

2005-05-05 Thread chr
On Wed, 4 May 2005, samar wrote: > I am enclosing a sample file. which uses Lyx with a lot of ERT. Even > then it saves a lot of typing using Lyx. I have not used Harvard > Graphics so one cant really compare but Beamer does give a very nice, > slightly unusual presentation, very quickly and easil

working with repeat references to titles of other works

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Me, again. :-) The project I am working on frequently refers to titles of magazines, works of art, publications, etc. It has occurred to me that this could cause a number of problems later on if, for example, the spelling or title changes, or something with the style (I'm using emphasis/italics

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Meri Williams
> In cases such as this I'd suggest looking at: > 1. The contents of the LyX file itself. > > It's just text. You should find entries near the top of the document: > \use_natbib 1 > \use_numerical_citations 0 Those are both there > and near the bottom > \begin_inset LatexCommand \Bib

Re: quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > I've found the setting Layout --> Document --> Language where one can > select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German > double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I > also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e.

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > That is what I am observing with 1.3.5. :-( > Is there a newer version that is not too "alpha-ish"? The bug has been fixed in the 1.4 development version, which is not ready for release yet. I think there is less chance that this will also be fixed in the 1.3.x tree beca

quotation marks -- double _and_ single

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Hi all, I've found the setting Layout --> Document --> Language where one can select language-appropriate quotation marks and so I get my funny German double quotation marks that look a very tiny bit like ,,this''. But I also need the same thing as single quotation marks, i.e. ,this' for neste

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Juergen Spitzmueller writes: >> Angus Leeming wrote: > [...] >> > Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the >> > right thing. >> >> But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes >> which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate m

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Pfeiffer
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > Angus Leeming wrote: [...] > > Notes are visible in the Navigate menu. I think you're doing the > > right thing. > > But I think there is a bug in 1.3 that note-next does not find notes > which are nested in insets (i.e. the Navigate menu will probably skip > your not

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Angus Leeming wrote: > > My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify > > references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave > > them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be > > able to easily find them using the navigation menu.

Re: Strange Bib Behaviour

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Meri Williams wrote: > Hi > > I'm getting some really random bibliography behaviour. In the Layout > -> Document menu, I've chosen to use Natbib, in the Author-Year cite > style. Then, where I've added my Bibliography at the end of the > document, I've selected the format as apalike. > > This w

Re: notes in footnotes?

2005-05-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi, > > My author has notes inside her footnotes reminding her to verify > references, archive information, etc., but it seems to me that if I leave > them there (we are migrating a book from Word to Lyx that she won't be > able to easily find them using the navigation men

Re: case insertion in a lyx document

2005-05-05 Thread Paul Medwell
Harold Mouras wrote: Dear Lyx Users, would someone know how to insert in a Lyx document a symbol like ð. Thanks, Harold get a copy of the latex "symbol bible" http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf