installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Hi there - well I'm probably a complete newbie in this area and despite intent searching on the internet I'm still no close to the answer I need... so here goes: My major goal is to write my entire PhD thesis under Lyx (mostly for philosophical reasons). but I need to be able to use bibtex for

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Angus Leeming
mark boydell wrote: The basic quoatation I want is of the style ( I think it's standard APA): Flavell et al (1998) approached the current issue (Flavell et al, 1990) Ref: Flavell, J. , Herrera, S Flea, M. (1998), iJournal of Whatever, 96/I 250-563 any help would be most

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now - gives me a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... Mmm... Is there any point doing a complete re-install of it all and Is there a howto for psyhcologist using lyx? (I'll write one if I manage to unwangle this one

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:03:31PM +, mark boydell wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now - gives me a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... You need to click on the bibtex inset, and change the style from 'plain' to 'plainnat'. And

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for the record I hadn't texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp learning curve despite having used Linux on and off for ages ) erm only one quibble - is there anyway to get round brackets instead of

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:08:40PM +, mark boydell wrote: Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for the record I hadn't texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp learning curve despite having used Linux on and off for ages ) erm

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Owen Lucas
I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put \usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib} in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. cheers owen mark boydell wrote:

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread robin
Owen Lucas wrote: I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put \usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib} in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. But Harvard won't

RE: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Rob S
For me, apalike + natbib are working fine, round brackets and all the citation control I need. Rob S

installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Hi there - well I'm probably a complete newbie in this area and despite intent searching on the internet I'm still no close to the answer I need... so here goes: My major goal is to write my entire PhD thesis under Lyx (mostly for philosophical reasons). but I need to be able to use bibtex for

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Angus Leeming
mark boydell wrote: The basic quoatation I want is of the style ( I think it's standard APA): Flavell et al (1998) approached the current issue (Flavell et al, 1990) Ref: Flavell, J. , Herrera, S Flea, M. (1998), iJournal of Whatever, 96/I 250-563 any help would be most

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now - gives me a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... Mmm... Is there any point doing a complete re-install of it all and Is there a howto for psyhcologist using lyx? (I'll write one if I manage to unwangle this one

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:03:31PM +, mark boydell wrote: Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now - gives me a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... You need to click on the bibtex inset, and change the style from 'plain' to 'plainnat'. And

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for the record I hadn't texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp learning curve despite having used Linux on and off for ages ) erm only one quibble - is there anyway to get round brackets instead of

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:08:40PM +, mark boydell wrote: Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for the record I hadn't texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp learning curve despite having used Linux on and off for ages ) erm

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Owen Lucas
I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put \usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib} in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. cheers owen mark boydell wrote:

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread robin
Owen Lucas wrote: I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put \usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib} in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. But Harvard won't

RE: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Rob S
For me, apalike + natbib are working fine, round brackets and all the citation control I need. Rob S

installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Hi there - well I'm probably a complete newbie in this area and despite intent searching on the internet I'm still no close to the answer I need... so here goes: My major goal is to write my entire PhD thesis under Lyx (mostly for philosophical reasons). but I need to be able to use bibtex for

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Angus Leeming
mark boydell wrote: > The basic quoatation I want is of the style ( I think it's standard APA): > > Flavell et al (1998) approached the current issue (Flavell et al, 1990) > > > Ref: > Flavell, J. , Herrera, S & Flea, M. (1998), Journal of Whatever, > 96 250-563 > > any help would be most

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now - gives me a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... Mmm... Is there any point doing a complete re-install of it all and Is there a howto for psyhcologist using lyx? (I'll write one if I manage to unwangle this one

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:03:31PM +, mark boydell wrote: > Thanks for the prompt reply but sadly it doesn't seem to work at all now > - gives me > a '?' in place of the references when I DVI it... You need to click on the bibtex inset, and change the style from 'plain' to 'plainnat'. > And

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread mark boydell
Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for the record I hadn't texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp learning curve despite having used Linux on and off for ages ) erm only one quibble - is there anyway to get round brackets instead of

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:08:40PM +, mark boydell wrote: > Thanks for the help from all - it seems to be working fine now (and for > the record I hadn't > texhashed the bst files ;)- sorry, I'm finding this quite a sharp > learning curve despite having > used Linux on and off for ages ) >

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Owen Lucas
I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put "\usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib}" in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. cheers owen mark boydell wrote:

Re: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread robin
Owen Lucas wrote: I think that this depends on what bst you are using. In the past I have put "\usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib}" in my preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx. These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard. But Harvard

RE: installing Bst files properly

2003-03-04 Thread Rob S
For me, apalike + natbib are working fine, round brackets and all the citation control I need. Rob S