Iain
I have used Lyx to write a provisional patent. I've attached a very brief
example of how you can do it. You will need lineno.sty, see
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/lineno.html
I don't know how this package will go with two column mode though.
Ben
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> Iain McClatchie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) entered the
> following feedback message on the LyX home page:
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> I am writing patents and would like a Patent document type: two
> columns, with every fifth line numbered down the center. There are
> millions of examples of the format on the IBM patent server page:
> http://patent.womplex.ibm.com
>
> Ideally, in the claims section at the end, I would be able to write
> \"the logic circuit of claim \", where pointed to an
> earlier claim, and when my claims were renumbered due to edits all
> these links would be changed...
>
> I\'m drawing my figures in \"xfig\", and it would be quite useful if
> some similar sort of could be arranged with the drawings to
> eliminate much of the renumbering due to edits there.
>
> I have no LaTex or Lyx expertise, but I am willing to pay for such
> a package so long as it is integrated into the main Lyx distribution.
> I am also quite willing to help debug such a package.
>
> Whom do I contact about such services? I\'d like someone to tell
> me roughly how big a job this is before I commit money.
>
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Ben Cazzolato
Fluid Dynamics and Acoustics Group
Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
University of Southampton,
Southampton, SO17 1BJ
UK
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Work: +44 (0)1703 594 967
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Web Page : http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bscazz/
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A virtual energy density sensor for active noise control
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This invention relates to a new type of sensor for active noise control
systems.
In most conventional active noise control systems microphones are used
as pressure error sensors.
These tend to lead to poor global control in heavily damped enclosures,
but they do tend to produce small, well controlled regions at the sensor.
As an alternative to minimising pressures at the microphone locations,
it is possible to control energy density.
This has been shown to produce a broader zone of local control, but still
localised to the actual transducers.
\layout Standard
The invention which is the subject of this document has the advantage that
it it can sense, and therefore control, energy density at any location
near to the actual transducers.
The advantage of this approach is that the bulky transducer arrangement
used to sense energy density is moved away from the desired control location
(typically a passengers head).
The way this is achieved is by using a 7-microphone transducer arrangement
for three-dimensional sound fields (or 3-microphone transducer for one-dimensio
nal sound fields).
Figure
\begin_inset LatexCommand \ref{fig:virtual ed sensor}
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shows a typical physical arrangement of the three-dimensional virtual energy
density sensor.
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\begin_inset LatexCommand \label{fig:virtual ed sensor}
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Transducer locations of the three-dimensional virtual energy density sensor
for active noise control.
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Conventional energy density sensors calculate the energy density at the
geometric centre of the transducers.
In this invention, a forward difference approximation is used to estimate
the energy density at some distance
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from the geometric centre
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