On 12/17/2012 03:22 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
First of all, I have never written a layout or module before, so
please be patient if this does not do all you hoped. However, I do
have a new apa6 layout that seems to work pretty well for me. It is
based on the apa layout which is included in LyX, and was originally
written by Randy Gobbel. I made modifications to get this to work well
with the new apa6 class, updating several styles, adding others, and
organizing them in the dropdown menu.
The apa6 document class has three citation modes, ordinary apacite,
apacite with natbib, and biblatex. I use bibtex, so the natbib option
was the one I was most interested in. To get natbib to work with
apacite in lyx, I created a simple module called Natbibapa. Natbibapa
alllows you to use natbib and the apacite package together, which is
necessary for doing apa6 citations. This package actually works fine
to allow apa6 citations in documents with any style. It is very
simple, and basically just fixes a conflict with natbib
options...Jürgen Spitzmüller's suggestion was critical to getting this
to work.
I did not make the natbibapa module required by the apa6 layout since
it should be possible to use biblatex with the apa6 layout file. I
have never used biblatex so I have not tested this. If someone does,
maybe they could try it and let me know how it works. Attached are
three files: natbibapa.module, apa6.layout, and SimpleApa6Example.lyx
Installing the natbibapa module and the apa6 layout should allow you
to compile the example .lyx file. At that point you're pretty much
there. As a reminder, you just have to copy the .layout and .module
files into the LyX layout folder (on windows, this is something like
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0\layouts. On Ubuntu, I use
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/ ). Then, reconfigure LyX and you should be
good to go.
If you use this, please let me know how it works for you (or doesn't).
I assume you would be happy to have us add this to LyX itself? If so,
can you send a message to lyx-devel saying something like: I hereby
authorize my contributions to LyX to be licensed under GPL version 2 or
any later version?
Thanks for your work,
Richard
