Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: The BiBTeX database has the names in mixed case, and after reading all docs I could find and Googling both the web and comp.text.tex, I can't find a trick to switch them to uppercase in the bibliography. Hack the bst file. A quick solution (untested): create a bst file

Problem with natbib and plainnat

2004-09-04 Thread Hassoun Karam
Hi I have realized that, in a previous message (see the title above), the @ character (in the tex code) has been with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is it the lyx mail server? what should I do in order to have the tex code displayed as such? thanks Hassoun

Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly used ``double'' quotation marks instead of `single' throughout all eight chapters. Has anyone got a snipet of preamle code that will ammend this user error throughout the entire thesis? (Thesis compiled

Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Mike Barnsley
Paul, I think you've got two possible options. The first is to define your own BibTeX style file using makebst, which is run as follows tex makebst then answer the relevant questions. I'm not 100% positive, but I think that one of these may allow you to specify uppercase names in the list of

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Find (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly used

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Colin J. Williams wrote: This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Just tried that but cannot get it to do the job. Find (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. The find and replace gizzmo will not

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine (-1.3.3Qt, linux) the `` is generated by the key, not two back tics. So, did you use two back tics or the double-quote key

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
Rob, You might try the replacement not with LyX, but with a simple text editor e.g. in Windows, use Wordpad. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine

Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: The BiBTeX database has the names in mixed case, and after reading all docs I could find and Googling both the web and comp.text.tex, I can't find a trick to switch them to uppercase in the bibliography. Hack the bst file. A quick solution (untested): create a bst file

Problem with natbib and plainnat

2004-09-04 Thread Hassoun Karam
Hi I have realized that, in a previous message (see the title above), the @ character (in the tex code) has been with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is it the lyx mail server? what should I do in order to have the tex code displayed as such? thanks Hassoun

Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly used ``double'' quotation marks instead of `single' throughout all eight chapters. Has anyone got a snipet of preamle code that will ammend this user error throughout the entire thesis? (Thesis compiled

Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Mike Barnsley
Paul, I think you've got two possible options. The first is to define your own BibTeX style file using makebst, which is run as follows tex makebst then answer the relevant questions. I'm not 100% positive, but I think that one of these may allow you to specify uppercase names in the list of

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Find (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly used

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Colin J. Williams wrote: This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Just tried that but cannot get it to do the job. Find (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. The find and replace gizzmo will not

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine (-1.3.3Qt, linux) the `` is generated by the key, not two back tics. So, did you use two back tics or the double-quote key

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
Rob, You might try the replacement not with LyX, but with a simple text editor e.g. in Windows, use Wordpad. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine

Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > The BiBTeX database has the names in mixed case, and after reading all > docs I could find and Googling both the web and comp.text.tex, I can't > find a trick to switch them to uppercase in the bibliography. Hack the bst file. A quick solution (untested): create a bst file

Problem with natbib and plainnat

2004-09-04 Thread Hassoun Karam
Hi I have realized that, in a previous message (see the title above), the @ character (in the tex code) has been with [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Is it the lyx mail server? what should I do in order to have the tex code displayed as such? thanks Hassoun

Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly used ``double'' quotation marks instead of `single' throughout all eight chapters. Has anyone got a snipet of preamle code that will ammend this user error throughout the entire thesis? (Thesis compiled

Re: BiBTeX (non-LyX) question

2004-09-04 Thread Mike Barnsley
Paul, I think you've got two possible options. The first is to define your own BibTeX style file using makebst, which is run as follows tex makebst then answer the relevant questions. I'm not 100% positive, but I think that one of these may allow you to specify uppercase names in the list of

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Find " (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case " (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Hi List My wife has just about finished her thesis on Lyx only to find that she has wrongly

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Colin J. Williams wrote: This sounds like a Find and Replace job ( ^F). Just tried that but cannot get it to do the job. Find " (or two single quotes) and replace with ' It's best to backup your file in case " (or two single quotes) is used elsewhere. The find and replace gizzmo will not

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Rob S
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine (-1.3.3Qt, linux) the `` is generated by the " key, not two back tics. So, did you use two back tics or the double-quote key

Re: Quotation mark issue

2004-09-04 Thread Colin J. Williams
Rob, You might try the replacement not with LyX, but with a simple text editor e.g. in Windows, use Wordpad. Colin W. Rob S wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Rob S wrote: The find and replace gizzmo will not recognise the `` string Rob, In the copy of LyX on this machine