On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 01:30:39PM +0100, Thomas Steffen wrote:
>
> > First, I would like to use a different font family (sans
> > serif rather than times) for table captions.
>
> This is defined by the LaTeX style. Try the koma-script family
> instead of the default styles. (That's in Layout->Document.) It
> will change other details, too.
No, he has been asking about _table_ captions, not _section_
titles. There must be a special package for that somewhere on
CTAN.
> > Second, I would like to get rid of the default justification
> > for text in a table column.
>
> Should be possible, but justification has always been a weak
> point of LaTeX (imho).
NO! Justification is exactly the most strong aspect of TeX (and
LaTeX therefore) -- it makes the stuff much better than any other
commercial program used for typesetting (except for Adobe
InDesign, but not for their PageMaker). The only other exception
which makes it as well as TeX is lout (and only because the
author copied the algorithm from TeX). Why do you think so many
high-tech professional publishing houses use TeX for their work?
For your problem: try to highlight cells in the particular column
and then set alignment in Layout/Tabular/Column-Row/H. Alignment.
> > Third, some rows of my table are intended to fall on two
> > lines.
>
> Very difficult. Using two rows is the easiest, if possible.
> Otherwise you can define multiline cells with linebreaks. You
> have to define a widths, imho. Details depend on the exact LyX
> version.
Section 4.4.4 in your User Guide.
>
> > Fourth, is there an easy way to select text and then format
> > it all in caps (not small caps, or whatever is listed in the
> > character popup), or as title caps (first word capitalized)?
>
> Not that I know. Emacs does it with M-u. So if anyone could
> write this for LyX...
Alt-C,<arrow-up>
> > Fifth, is there any easy way to automatically have a table
> > span exactly the width of the paper?
>
> Yes, this can be done using LaTeX. You can specify the column
> width as part of the paper width. I don't remember the exact
> syntax, though.
You can use \linewidth as a unit (so, .55\linewidth is a legal
expression for the column width).
> > Eighth and last, I would like to use BibTex for my
> > references, and I understand how to import the citation into
> > Lyx, but I don't know how to start BibTex in the first place
> > to enter a list of references.
>
> BibTeX databases are just text files. You can write them with
> your favourite editor, or you use one of the several special
> programs for BibTeX files.
Try to read btxdoc.dvi in your distribution of TeX. Hint: program
called bibtex is called automagically by LyX when needed. It just
process records from your .bib file in the form which is needed
by LaTeX. BibTeX databases are really just a text files to be
written (try bibtex-mode in Emacs, or pybibliographer in GNOME).
They consists from records like this one:
@article{coleman:AJS-1988-S95,
author = {James S. Coleman},
title = {Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital},
journal = {American Journal of Sociology},
year = 1988,
volume = 94,
pages = {S95-S120}
}
but you need to read more about them. Try above mentioned .dvi
file and an Emacs mode -- although I really hate EMACS, this is
the only part of it, which I used for a couple of years with huge
satisfaction.
> > I know that there is an export function, but I think I read
> > that it is 95% or so accurate in conveying the full meaning
> > of what was typeset in Lyx.
>
> No, the export is 100% accurate (more or less). It is the
> import which not infallible.
The export into LaTeX is done everytime you hit Ctrl-D for
previewing your document in xdvi, there it MUST be and it IS 100%
accurate.
> > Also, having it in *.tex format would allow easy sharing of
> > files with other collaborators who are using LaTex but not
> > Lyx.
As said above, export to .tex is 100% accurate, so there is
nothing preventing you from sharing your files with the rest of
the world. The only problem is that your friends will find some
of the .tex files slightly confusing (because humans do it
better), but of course .dvi/.ps output is 100% same as the
document you would write in plain LaTeX (just, it takes less time
to do it in LyX :-).
Have a nice day and be patient
Matej
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