On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Allan Rae wrote: > > > Mike> Besides, I would be much more excited about it if my pet > > > Mike> \citet/\citep mechanism were implemented; I think that is a > > > > I have been looking into this although I haven't much time to do the > > implementation. So far I've found at least twenty different variations of > > cite ranging from "cite" to "citeauthor" to "astrocite" and the much > > requested "cite[ntp]" etc. Unfortunately, my best plan at present > > involves a change in the lyx file format which is not backwards > > compatible. So sharing files with others would require everyone to > > upgrade. > > The AASTeX package uses natbib.sty for it's citation mechanism (natbib is > a standard part of the teTeX distribution). AASTeX itself uses only the > \citep and \citet commands. A LyX implementation of an extended citation > popup should probably generally support the natbib package. My impression > was that natbib was supposed to replace all sort of other citation hacks. Well, I've archived the two long threads from both lyx-devel and lyx-users from about a month ago and while natbib is popular there seems to be at least 6 cite variations that people on the lists want and not all those are in natbib. > Yes, this will mean a file format change, and is thus way beyond my coding > abilities. (Now, if LyX were written in FORTH, it might be a different > story :-) Ahhh, you must be a good astronomer then if you know FORTH. > Thus, my serious consideration to be a mercenary and taint the > pristine waters of Open Source code with filthy lucre ... I don't think anyone has ever really said Free software had to be free. (No, Stallman doesn't oppose paying for software its the not sharing code and ideas he doesn't like) Allan. (ARRae)
