APA is taking over the world ! As the founder and president of the Society for the Abolition of Footnotes and Endnotes (S.A.F.E.) I find this heartening.
For not APA users, APA style strongly discourages the use of footnotes -- I don't think they even mention the herasy of endnotes. ________________________________ From: Julio Rojas <jcredbe...@gmail.com> To: John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> Cc: Lyx List <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 1:09:47 PM Subject: Re: Biblatex with Lyx and eventually with APA6 style In Venezuela, just about all. It is the de facto standard for all college/university reports/thesis. ------------------------------------------------- Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote: Further progress report. I finally got apa6 with biblatex working. I think I was managing to introduce a new problem eery time I fixed one. I am not an intuitive LyX/LaTeX user. > >I also can report that at, least in Canada, some Nuclear Technologist students >at the college level use APA style; the mind boggles, but since I suspect that >they do a lot more math work and similar than most psych students , the >outstanding advantages of the LyX math editor should be appreciated. > >I wonder what other student types use APA? > > > > > > >________________________________ > From: Jacob Bishop <bishop.ja...@gmail.com> >To: John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> >Cc: stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>; Lyx List ><lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> >Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 1:10:39 PM > >Subject: Re: Biblatex with Lyx and eventually with APA6 style > > > >On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:12 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote: > >Hi Jacob, >>This looks great but so far I cannot even get my very simple example that ran >>for you and Stefano to work. and I'm left gazing woefully at your pdf file. >>I do like the use of &! >>I wonder if you or Stefano could have another look my files and see what >>stupid thing I' doing? >> > >John, > >It looks like Stefano might have beat me to the punch, but I will send this >anyway. This is what I did to make it work. I am on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine >(at the moment...I also use Ubuntu). > > 1. I downloaded biber from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/biblatex-biber/files/latest/download then > extracted the biber.exe file and copied it to C:\Program Files\MiKTeX > 2.9\miktex\bin. Then, I added C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin to the > system path by right-clicking computer->properties, then environment > variables. Find the variable PATH, put a semi-colon after everything already > there, and append C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin. > 2. I downloaded the biblatex.module file, from > http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/BibTeX/biblatex.module and installed it by > copying it into my local lyx directory, > C:\Users\Jacob\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0\layouts. > 3. I downloaded your files from the latest email (biblatex1.lyx and > biblatex_style_guide.bib). These were downloaded to the same directory, > C:\Users\Jacob\Downloads. > 4. I opened LyX, and under tools->preferences->output->LaTeX, in the > Bibliography generation selected "Custom" from the dropdown menu. The options > box changed to a command box, and I typed biber into the box. I clicked save > and closed LyX. > > 5. I opened your LyX file, biblatex1.lyx. I expanded the note, and > clicked on BibTeX Generated Bibliography. When the dialogue came up, I > deleted the entry, lyx\biblatex_style_guide. I clicked add, then browse. I > found the downloaded file, biblatex_style_guide, and clicked on it, then on > add and then ok. > 6. I went to document->settings->LaTeX Preamble, and changed the second > line from \addbibresource{biblatex1.bib} to > \addbibresource{C:/Users/Jacob/Downloads/biblatex_style_guide.bib}. Then, I > clicked ok. > 7. Then, I clicked on the little googly eyes button, and voila! The pdf > came out properly. >Obviously, there will be differences if you're on Linux, but you ought to be >able to figure out the differences. In particular, step 1 will not be nearly >so painful. > >Jacob > > >
