On 11/15/2010 08:02 PM, Ken wrote:
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your reply. It gives me a few ideas on where to dig for more info.
I suppose what I am trying to do is to create something like a simple
journal. I would like to tie a handful of papers together into a
single document (with contiguous page numbering) and have a few
introductory pages at the start. Each of the papers will have its own
title/abstract/bibliography. Do you think something like this is
possible? Or should I be manually editing the first page number in
each paper and generating them as separate LyX files?
Is this something you will do once, or something you will do many times?
If the latter, then you might want to consider trying to create your own
document class for this purpose. It could
be based upon book, say, but it would have a couple extra features. One
would be a \chapterauthor command that
would allow you to do that, as well as a chapterabstract environment,
for setting that. The only other thing you'd
really need to do is get the \chapter command to issue the right other
commands for sectioning the bibliography.
That would take a bit of work but, as people here often say, once it was
done, it would be done, and it would be
easy to tweak layout, fonts, etc.
The other possibility is to use the class I mentioned before, which I
finally found here:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/combine/
TeXLive seems to include it by default. As I said, however, you'd need
to do the final work in LaTeX itself.
That said, it would be fairly easy to write a simple script that would
do all the work for you. E.g., you can
export the LyX files to tex from the command line:
lyx -e tex paper1.tex
and then you just need to build a simple LaTeX file, with documentclass
combine, that will do little more than
include the various papers. Some work, but once it's done it's done.
Richard
