On 11/15/2010 01:03 PM, Ken wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a document which contains a few pages of info
followed by three papers.
That is, each of the three papers should be its own complete paper
(with its own title, abstract, the document with tables and figures,
footnotes, and its own bibliography). In front of these papers I
would like a title page followed by some introductory information and
a table of contents (for tables and figures) across the three papers.
Page numbers across the three documents should not reset but the
section numbers with in each document should.
I have put together a simple master.lyx file and inside I have
included the child documents test1.lyx, test2.lyx, and test3.lyx.
However, the bibilography in each paper is not unique to that paper
and the title of each paper is included as standard text.
Can anyone point me in the right direction for understanding Child
Documents in LyX and how to achieve this?
This isn't really how child documents are meant to be used; perhaps the
terminology is
misleading. Anyway, "child documents" are really just a kind of included
file, and when they
are used that way, they do not generate their own preamble, titlepage, etc.
I'm not sure, though, precisely what you are trying to do here. Would it
be possible simply
to treat these papers as chapters? Or do they have separate authors and
the like? If you could
treat them as chapters, then it sounds as if the main issue is the
bibliography. To solve that, you
can use the bibtopic package, which is briefly discussed in section
3.1.3 of the Additional
Features manual.
If you really do want the "chapters" to be separate papers, or whatever,
then LyX does not
provide support for this. That said, however, this topic came up before,
and I seem to
remember that there is a LaTeX package that you can use to do this kind
of thing, but I do
not remember what it was called. Since LyX does not include support for
it, you would need
to use LyX to produce the various documents, then export them to LaTeX
and do the final
work on the .tex files.
Richard
