Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> The \& works here, I don't understand your error unless there is
> a problem with the bibliographic section in a separate lyx file.
You're right, this does work. Thanks. I'm not sure what I was doing
wrong when it wasn't. In future versions of LyX, would it be possible
to automatically translate ampersands in the Bibliography Label field to
be \& in LaTeX as it's done in LyX documents; or is there a design
reason that this was not done?
Myles
Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
>
> >> Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 00:42:03 +0000
> >> From: Myles Bogner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Two Questions About The Bibliography Section
> >>
> >> Hello LyX Users,
> >>
> >> I am using LyX 1.0. My LaTeX preamble includes \usepackage{apalike}.
> >>
> >> As I cite references within my document, I'd like them to appear as
> >> (Doe & Smith, 1999). If I type that in directly after the sentence, it
> >> works as it should. However, I'd like to use the keys and labels
> >> feature of LyX.
> >>
> >> So, in the reference section of an article class, in the gray
> >> Bibliography Item box, I add DoeSmith:1999 as the key and Doe & Smith,
> >> 1999 as the label. I then go back to my document and insert the
> >> citation at the end of the appropriate sentence. When viewing the .dvi
> >> file, the ampersand is not present.
> >>
> >> From my experience with LaTeX, I am aware that the ampersand is a
> >> special symbol. So I then inserted into the Bibliography Item's label
> >> field Doe \& Smith, 1999 but this did not work either.
> >>
> >> So my first question is, how can I use the label field in my document
> >> and get the desired citation look?
>
> The \& works here, I don't understand your error unless there is
> a problem with the bibliographic section in a separate lyx file.
>
> >>
> >> The second question stems from the assumption that I cannot do what I
> >> want with the first question. When entering references, the first one
> >> of course has a key of 1, the second one a key of 2, etc. I am happy
> >> simply using these keys without entering any labels (for example, this
> >> will let me always see how many references I have). However, LaTeX
> >> produces errors when labels are not entered. Is there a way to make
> >> LaTeX not produce errors if for each key, no label is entered?
>
> I'm afraid that you *need* the label, because there are two separate
> pieces of information: one is the key, the other is what reflects
> the citation in the document. The only style in which you
> don't need the label are simple styles like plain (the default).
>
> If you want to give only a key, you should use bibtex and leave
> the formatting of the citation to the program: apalike.sty is supposed
> to be used with .bst, which automatically elaborates the citation text fron
> the citation source. In that case you
> will need to hack the apalike bst style to get the ampersand (the normal
> apalike style uses "and" to link abbreviated author names), or shift to
> a more flexible style (natbib for example). The citation panel will however
> not give the full flexibility and you will probaly need to \cite in
> TeX mode.
>
> If you go to bibTeX, (a good idea IMHO), you *will* need unique keys
> to be able to reuse the bibliographic database, and to pick up
> bibliographic information fron various sources.
>
> Regards
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre
>
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