Thanks, John
The closest style I’ve come across in LyX, is “ACM-Reference-Format”. That one
is not entirely correct regarding the conference/proceedings style… the *year*
should be towards the end of the reference, and not just after the author names.
The style is for a conference, and follows the style of conferences for a
computer language. Unfortunately (in my view), the style for these conferences
has been defined starting from Word – with no knowledge or care about the
limitations in LaTeX. [“Limitations” in LaTeX in the sense that it is much more
difficult to modify layout in LaTeX than in Word, at least for “simple” users…]
In addition to the reference style, I have problems with:
* Body font size – is specified as 10.5 point, which is not supported in
LaTeX. Someone directed me to a package for scaling the font size, but that did
not work for me. [Some 30 years, a fellow Ph.D.-student found that the
“optimal” font size for readability was 10.7 point. So there may be some merit
to 10.5 point. However, for me, 11 point or 12 point would be even better –
today.)
* Possibly with margins and column gap. And definitely with the top margin
on the first page.
* The font type in the title – doesn’t seem to be changed to Times Roman as
the remainder of the text is.
A general wish list for LyX could be:
* Better explanation for how to use conference styles/templates and journal
templates with LyX.
* The documentation holds some involved description of how to set up Layout
files. But this seems overly complex (?). Maybe a video would be better.
I fear that new (conference/journal) layouts which are not supported by LyX
will be more common in the future, as more and more “amateur typographs”
develop their own styles in Word ☹.
I’ve had problems even with IEEE conference templates… A couple of years ago, I
used an IEEE conference style that was not supported in LyX, so I had to have a
student help me using some other tool. And then, IEEE’s own test tool for
checking whether the papers followed their style, flagged my paper as not
adhering to their style. Those using the Word style had no problem. I suspect
that their LaTeX style was not fully according to the requirements tested in
their test tool…
BL
From: John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2018 23:30
To: Bernt Lie <bernt@usn.no>
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Subject: Re: Display of supported Bibliography styles in LyX?
I "think" I have seen this format in some (sociological?) journals but I have
no idea what LyX/LaTeX format would work.
What journal or style guide are you aiming at? That might help us narrow things
down. It is not clear to me what you mean by "reference style (Harvard)".
You might want to have a look at the various formats that the bibliographic
management system Zotero https://www.zotero.org/ supplies
https://www.zotero.org/styles and see if there is a reference to the LaTeX
equivalent.
Fair warning though, Zotero supports over 9,000 journal formats and a quick
wade through the sociological styles suggests my memory is the equivalent of
Swiss Cheese.
On 9 April 2018 at 12:09, Bernt Lie <bernt@usn.no<mailto:bernt@usn.no>>
wrote:
Hi Michael,
Thanks. But observe that references are sorted alphabetically on first author
*but listed as first name followed by family name*.
Bernt
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Subject: Re: Display of supported Bibliography styles in LyX?
Hello Bernt,
my example as per attachment used style = papalike.
Not quite what you are looking for but rather close.
Michael
On 09.04.2018 08:48, Bernt Lie wrote:
Anyone knows of a LyX reference style (Harvard) that produces a reference list
as below? (I normally use other styles…)
-B
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