Re: Capabilities for navigating my trove of LyX documents

2019-11-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin 

On 11/2/19 12:04 PM, David Mertens wrote:

Hello everyone,

After years of using LyX for research notebooks, I find myself these 
days working with sets of documents much like I have sets of tabs in 
my browser. I would really, really like to be able to open up sets of 
documents just like I can open up sets of tabs in a browser, and I 
would also really like to be able to bookmark documents much like I 
can bookmark web pages. Finally, it would be really nice if I could 
embed LyX links to other documents to refer to previous calculations 
or experimental results, so that I could click on it and LyX would 
open the document in a new tab. This would really, really facilitate 
my scholarly work.


Apart from the bookmarking, most of these are "solved" by opening 
multiple LyX sessions with the tabs I need, then never restarting my 
laptop for weeks on end. However, when my laptop inadvertently loses 
power, all of that "state" is lost and I have to recreate it from scratch.


I have looked into implementing some of these ideas with lyxpipe 
programming, but as I said I use multiple LyX sessions for different 
kinds of work: one research project, another research project, one 
class, and another class all need their own tab sets, so they go in 
different sessions. lyxpipe can only talk with the first LyX process 
that starts.


As far as I can tell, LyX does not have any of these capabilities and 
lyxpipe is not the way to implement them. Am I wrong? If I wanted to 
implement them, what is the most sensible way to do so? Is there an 
extension mechanism for this kind of thing besides lyxpipe? Finally, 
what are the tools that others use to organize large collections of 
notebook-ish files?


Thanks!
David

P.S. I am not (yet) subscribed to the user list, so I'd appreciate if 
replies included my email address explicitly. Thanks!


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At least part of this is fairly easy to implement.

Opening sets of documents: You can set up a one-line batch file to open 
a particular bunch of documents. Omitting the path info for brevity, 
"lyx file1.lyx file2.lyx ..." will open all the files listed in one LyX 
window. Similarly, "lyx *.lyx" will open all the .lyx files in the 
directory where the command is being run (at least on Linux, but I 
imagine also on MacOS and Windows).


Bookmarks: LyX lets you open files from a list of recently opened ones. 
If that's not sufficient, one possibility is to create a folder 
(directory) someplace for "bookmarks". In that folder, put a link to 
each file you would like to bookmark. (On Linux, this is known as a 
symlink. Windows and, I assume, MacOS also support symlinks.) You can 
optionally go to Tools > Preferences > Paths and change your "Working 
directory" path to that folder, which means LyX will always default to 
that folder when you are opening a file. (You can still navigate to 
other documents using the file chooser.)


Paul

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Capabilities for navigating my trove of LyX documents

2019-11-02 Thread David Mertens 
Hello everyone,

After years of using LyX for research notebooks, I find myself these days
working with sets of documents much like I have sets of tabs in my browser.
I would really, really like to be able to open up sets of documents just
like I can open up sets of tabs in a browser, and I would also really like
to be able to bookmark documents much like I can bookmark web pages.
Finally, it would be really nice if I could embed LyX links to other
documents to refer to previous calculations or experimental results, so
that I could click on it and LyX would open the document in a new tab. This
would really, really facilitate my scholarly work.

Apart from the bookmarking, most of these are "solved" by opening multiple
LyX sessions with the tabs I need, then never restarting my laptop for
weeks on end. However, when my laptop inadvertently loses power, all of
that "state" is lost and I have to recreate it from scratch.

I have looked into implementing some of these ideas with lyxpipe
programming, but as I said I use multiple LyX sessions for different kinds
of work: one research project, another research project, one class, and
another class all need their own tab sets, so they go in different
sessions. lyxpipe can only talk with the first LyX process that starts.

As far as I can tell, LyX does not have any of these capabilities and
lyxpipe is not the way to implement them. Am I wrong? If I wanted to
implement them, what is the most sensible way to do so? Is there an
extension mechanism for this kind of thing besides lyxpipe? Finally, what
are the tools that others use to organize large collections of notebook-ish
files?

Thanks!
David

P.S. I am not (yet) subscribed to the user list, so I'd appreciate if
replies included my email address explicitly. Thanks!

-- 
*David Mertens*
Assistant Professor of Physics
727.864.8521

Office Hours can be made by appointment within the following time blocks:

   - Tuesday 11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., MPC 213
   - Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., MPC 107
   - Friday 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., MPC 107


Eckerd College 
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, Florida 33711
[image: Eckerd College logo]
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Re: Bibliography includes document type

2019-11-02 Thread Rich Shepard 

On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Kornel Benko wrote:


Checking TL19 I found some .bst files containing this string.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/uestcthesis/uestcthesis.bst:1687:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/seuthesis/seuthesis.bst:1685:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate1.bst:570:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate3.bst:570:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate4.bst:571:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate2.bst:571:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/doc/latex/seuthesis/zharticle/zharticle.bst:1684:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.


Kornel,

I hadn't thought to look at the .bst files. I did find deprecated font
encodings (e.g., \sc, \bf) in the authordate series but did not look further
in them.

I've used authordate3 or 4 for years so the font encodings were not an issue
before, but I hadn't encountered the 'Tech. rept.' string before now.

Think it's time to send a message to TUG about these.

Thanks,

Rich
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Re: Bibliography includes document type

2019-11-02 Thread Kornel Benko 
Am Fri, 1 Nov 2019 06:30:29 -0700 (PDT)
schrieb Rich Shepard :

> This is a new issue with kbibtex. Technical report reference in the
> bibliography include the document type, Tech. rept., even though that's not
> in the bibtex source in the kbibtex database. Three examples of the output
> and their source listings (minus the abstracts):
> 
> Brinson, M.M. 1993. A hydrogeomorphic classification for wetlands. Tech.
> rept. Technical Report WRP-DE-4. US Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways
> Experiment Station.

Checking TL19 I found some .bst files containing this string.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/uestcthesis/uestcthesis.bst:1687:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/seuthesis/seuthesis.bst:1685:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate1.bst:570:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate3.bst:570:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate4.bst:571:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/authordate/authordate2.bst:571:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.
./texmf-dist/doc/latex/seuthesis/zharticle/zharticle.bst:1684:{ "Tech.
rept."  }  %  ODWE abbrevs.

...

> Since the string, 'Tech. rept.' does not appear in the bibtex source I don't
> know where to look to find why it appears in the compiled document's
> bibliography. All ideas welcome.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rich

Kornel



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