Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 8:38 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul



In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author 
list. Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
 citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
 pdf file:

 Author1 et al. (2000).

 Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
 file:

 Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

 ?

 In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author list.
 Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.

Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:23 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author list.
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul



Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this 
style file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is 
simply not natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:


\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
 citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
 pdf file:

 Author1 et al. (2000).

 Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
 file:

 Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

 ?

 In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author
 list.
 Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.

 Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
 using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
 style?

 Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
 file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
 natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:

 \bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

 which should instead read

 \bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

 in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author
list.
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?


Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:

\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.


Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul



I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the 
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author 
names in your LyX file.


--
Julien

\thanks numbering

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
affiliations.
How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?

Thank you.
Ramiro

cross-referencing between files

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx documents. 
None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
(Insert-File-Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. Then 
I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long as I'm 
building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only one of 
them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which needs 
referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should be pretty 
much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need to build them 
separately.

Thanks.
Ramiro 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:

 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard

Re: \thanks numbering

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:50 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
 Hi

 in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
 affiliations.
 How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?

This is document-class dependent. You may be able to use ERT to make a
real footnote, but that too is document-class dependent.

Richard

Re: cross-referencing between files

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:58 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
 Hi

 I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx 
 documents. None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
 My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
 (Insert-File-Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. 
 Then I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long 
 as I'm building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only 
 one of them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
 The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which 
 needs referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should 
 be pretty much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need 
 to build them separately.

I think you have to use the xr package. LyX's support for this will be
minimal at best.

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 10:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:


I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard



Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Cheers,
Julien

listing package with multicol

[Kulkarni Shantanu]

Hi,
I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns. The 
ways I have in mind are,
- make minipage 50% of width
- make a table with 2 colums
- use multicol package

Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Shantanu
-- 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

 Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
 plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
 make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
 too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
 latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

 Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

 Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

 Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Thanks, Julien and Richard. I have meanwhile found another BibTeX
file, which fits my needs and does not show the problem that apalike
exhibits.

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
 jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

 Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
 plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
 make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
 too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
 latter routine. But it should be straightforward.
 Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

Indeed.

 Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:
   
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 12:31 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.


Indeed.


Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?


Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard




What? What are those % signs? *Comments*, you say? ;)

--
Julien

Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Hi,

how does one change the page numbering format to the following:

[Page number] / [Total number of pages]



Example:

At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a total of 15
pages, I would like the PDF file to display 5 / 15.

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:03:36 PM ChiPro wrote:
 Hi,
 
 how does one change the page numbering format to the following:
 
 [Page number] / [Total number of pages]
 
 
 
 Example:
 
 At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a
 total of 15 pages, I would like the PDF file to display 5 / 15.
 
 Thanks!

Try these:

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lastpage

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/totpages

I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:

 I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
 suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
 
 SteveT
 

Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my Mac?
(I'm a beginner)

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, ChiPro chipro...@gmail.com wrote:
 Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:

 I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the
 suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.

 SteveT


 Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my 
 Mac?
 (I'm a beginner)

See Help  Customization  Section 5 for some pointers.
Liviu

Re: MacTeX/XeTeX pdf setting problems

[shyam basnet]

I was also having the same problem while trying to view pdf or Xetex with
Miktex. I re-install the Miktex 2.8, the old one, and resolved the problem.
You may try the older version of Mactex.

Shyam

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

 Maria Gouskova wrote:
  LaTeX Error: Command \B already defined.
  LaTeX Error: Command \T already defined.
 
 
  \newcommand{\B}[2][0]{\Bk{#1}{0}{#2}}

 This line is from xyling.sty. I suppose it conflicts with some other
 package,
 which defines \B before xyling is loaded.

 You can try to find out more by adding \show\B in the preamble before
 xyling
 is loaded. This outputs the current definition of the macro to the
 preamble,
 by which you can search (via spotlight) the responsible package.

 HTH,
 Jürgen

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:58:29 PM ChiPro wrote:
 Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:
  I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were
  the suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
  
  SteveT
 
 Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this
 package on my Mac? (I'm a beginner)

:-)

I guarantee you, as much of a beginner as you are with LyX, I'd be 
more of a beginner on Mac. I think between 1984 and now I've logged 
about 10 hours on a Mac.

On Linux you go to CTAN, download the package, put it in your LaTeX 
tree, and run the texhash program, then in your LyX document 
properties LaTeX Preamble you put \usepackage{lastline} or 
\usepackage{totpages}, and in your actual document text follow the 
directions in the package documentation.

Since you're a newbie I'm going to give you a piece of advice -- do as 
I say, not as I do. I personally use LaTeX to finesse a lot of what I 
need to do. On the other hand, there are many people on this list who 
can instantly find a package to do what I'd spend a half a day 
finessing. Those guys are a lot more productive than I. So become one 
of them -- get really familiar with what CTAN offers, and how to 
quickly find a package to enable a certain feature. There must be an 
efficient way to do it, because a lot of people on this list can do it 
instantly.

I have one other piece of advice for you, but let's wait until you're 
in a position where you can't get your title page or other front 
matter to look like you want it, and then ask me.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: listing package with multicol

[Paul Rubin]

Kulkarni Shantanu ml at lists.shantanukulkarni.org writes:

 
 Hi,
 I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns.
 The ways I have in mind are,
 - make minipage 50% of width
 - make a table with 2 colums
 - use multicol package
 
 Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?
 

It might depend on why you have to split the code. If it's just to reduce the
height of the listing, I'd probably use the multicol package with the multicols
option in the listing.

Paul

Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 8:38 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul



In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author 
list. Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
 citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
 pdf file:

 Author1 et al. (2000).

 Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
 file:

 Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

 ?

 In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author list.
 Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.

Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:23 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author list.
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul



Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this 
style file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is 
simply not natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:


\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
 citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
 pdf file:

 Author1 et al. (2000).

 Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
 file:

 Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

 ?

 In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author
 list.
 Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.

 Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
 using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
 style?

 Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
 file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
 natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:

 \bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

 which should instead read

 \bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

 in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark Full author
list.
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?


Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:

\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.


Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul



I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the 
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author 
names in your LyX file.


--
Julien

\thanks numbering

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
affiliations.
How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?

Thank you.
Ramiro

cross-referencing between files

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx documents. 
None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
(Insert-File-Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. Then 
I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long as I'm 
building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only one of 
them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which needs 
referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should be pretty 
much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need to build them 
separately.

Thanks.
Ramiro 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:

 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard

Re: \thanks numbering

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:50 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
 Hi

 in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
 affiliations.
 How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?

This is document-class dependent. You may be able to use ERT to make a
real footnote, but that too is document-class dependent.

Richard

Re: cross-referencing between files

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:58 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
 Hi

 I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx 
 documents. None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
 My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
 (Insert-File-Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. 
 Then I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long 
 as I'm building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only 
 one of them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
 The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which 
 needs referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should 
 be pretty much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need 
 to build them separately.

I think you have to use the xr package. LyX's support for this will be
minimal at best.

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 10:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:


I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard



Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Cheers,
Julien

listing package with multicol

[Kulkarni Shantanu]

Hi,
I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns. The 
ways I have in mind are,
- make minipage 50% of width
- make a table with 2 colums
- use multicol package

Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Shantanu
-- 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

 Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
 plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
 make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
 too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
 latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

 Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

 Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

 Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Thanks, Julien and Richard. I have meanwhile found another BibTeX
file, which fits my needs and does not show the problem that apalike
exhibits.

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
 jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

 Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
 plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
 make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
 too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
 latter routine. But it should be straightforward.
 Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

Indeed.

 Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:
   
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 12:31 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca  wrote:

I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.


Indeed.


Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?


Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard




What? What are those % signs? *Comments*, you say? ;)

--
Julien

Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Hi,

how does one change the page numbering format to the following:

[Page number] / [Total number of pages]



Example:

At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a total of 15
pages, I would like the PDF file to display 5 / 15.

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:03:36 PM ChiPro wrote:
 Hi,
 
 how does one change the page numbering format to the following:
 
 [Page number] / [Total number of pages]
 
 
 
 Example:
 
 At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a
 total of 15 pages, I would like the PDF file to display 5 / 15.
 
 Thanks!

Try these:

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lastpage

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/totpages

I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:

 I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
 suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
 
 SteveT
 

Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my Mac?
(I'm a beginner)

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, ChiPro chipro...@gmail.com wrote:
 Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:

 I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the
 suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.

 SteveT


 Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my 
 Mac?
 (I'm a beginner)

See Help  Customization  Section 5 for some pointers.
Liviu

Re: MacTeX/XeTeX pdf setting problems

[shyam basnet]

I was also having the same problem while trying to view pdf or Xetex with
Miktex. I re-install the Miktex 2.8, the old one, and resolved the problem.
You may try the older version of Mactex.

Shyam

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

 Maria Gouskova wrote:
  LaTeX Error: Command \B already defined.
  LaTeX Error: Command \T already defined.
 
 
  \newcommand{\B}[2][0]{\Bk{#1}{0}{#2}}

 This line is from xyling.sty. I suppose it conflicts with some other
 package,
 which defines \B before xyling is loaded.

 You can try to find out more by adding \show\B in the preamble before
 xyling
 is loaded. This outputs the current definition of the macro to the
 preamble,
 by which you can search (via spotlight) the responsible package.

 HTH,
 Jürgen

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:58:29 PM ChiPro wrote:
 Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com writes:
  I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were
  the suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
  
  SteveT
 
 Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this
 package on my Mac? (I'm a beginner)

:-)

I guarantee you, as much of a beginner as you are with LyX, I'd be 
more of a beginner on Mac. I think between 1984 and now I've logged 
about 10 hours on a Mac.

On Linux you go to CTAN, download the package, put it in your LaTeX 
tree, and run the texhash program, then in your LyX document 
properties LaTeX Preamble you put \usepackage{lastline} or 
\usepackage{totpages}, and in your actual document text follow the 
directions in the package documentation.

Since you're a newbie I'm going to give you a piece of advice -- do as 
I say, not as I do. I personally use LaTeX to finesse a lot of what I 
need to do. On the other hand, there are many people on this list who 
can instantly find a package to do what I'd spend a half a day 
finessing. Those guys are a lot more productive than I. So become one 
of them -- get really familiar with what CTAN offers, and how to 
quickly find a package to enable a certain feature. There must be an 
efficient way to do it, because a lot of people on this list can do it 
instantly.

I have one other piece of advice for you, but let's wait until you're 
in a position where you can't get your title page or other front 
matter to look like you want it, and then ask me.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: listing package with multicol

[Paul Rubin]

Kulkarni Shantanu ml at lists.shantanukulkarni.org writes:

 
 Hi,
 I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns.
 The ways I have in mind are,
 - make minipage 50% of width
 - make a table with 2 colums
 - use multicol package
 
 Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?
 

It might depend on why you have to split the code. If it's just to reduce the
height of the listing, I'd probably use the multicol package with the multicols
option in the listing.

Paul

Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 8:38 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

Dear All,

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?

Thanks in advance,

Paul



In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark "Full author 
list". Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
 wrote:
>> Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
>> citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
>> pdf file:
>>
>> Author1 et al. (2000).
>>
>> Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
>> file:
>>
>> Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)
>>
>> ?
>
> In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark "Full author list".
> Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.

Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:23 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Julien Rioux
  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark "Full author list".
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?

Paul



Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this 
style file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is 
simply not natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:


\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

--
Julien

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
 wrote:
 Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
 citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
 pdf file:

 Author1 et al. (2000).

 Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
 file:

 Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

 ?
>>>
>>> In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark "Full author
>>> list".
>>> Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.
>>
>> Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
>> using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
>> style?
>
> Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
> file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
> natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:
>
> \bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}
>
> which should instead read
>
> \bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}
>
> in order for natbib to produce a full author list.

Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 9:56 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Julien Rioux
  wrote:

Consider a BibTeX entry with 3 authors. With the style apalike, when
citing this BibTeX entry, I get something like the following in the
pdf file:

Author1 et al. (2000).

Is it possible instead to get something like the following in the pdf
file:

Author1, Author2 and Author3 (2000)

?


In the citation dialog, near the bottom, is a checkmark "Full author
list".
Does it work for you? It works here with a natbib style.


Thanks, Julien. I have tried that, but with no success. And yes, I am
using natlib with apalike style. Have you tried that with apalike
style?


Right, I get the same failure here with apalike. It seems that this style
file is either not the most recent and needs updating, or is simply not
natbib compatible. It produces in the .bbl file a line:

\bibitem[Einstein et~al., 1935]{EPR1935}

which should instead read

\bibitem[Einstein et~al.(1935)Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen]{EPR1935}

in order for natbib to produce a full author list.


Thanks again, Julien. Is there a workaround?

Paul



I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the 
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author 
names in your LyX file.


--
Julien

\thanks numbering

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
affiliations.
How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?

Thank you.
Ramiro

cross-referencing between files

[Ramiro Magno]

Hi

I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx documents. 
None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
(Insert->File->Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. Then 
I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long as I'm 
building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only one of 
them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which needs 
referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should be pretty 
much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need to build them 
separately.

Thanks.
Ramiro 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:
>
> I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
> apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
> names in your LyX file.
>
Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard

Re: \thanks numbering

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:50 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
> Hi
>
> in an author list, footnotes are translated to \thanks, which I'm using for 
> affiliations.
> How do I get the corresponding footnotes to be numbered?
>
This is document-class dependent. You may be able to use ERT to make a
real footnote, but that too is document-class dependent.

Richard

Re: cross-referencing between files

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:58 AM, Ramiro Magno wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been googling about how to do cross-referencing between two lyx 
> documents. None of the solutions I've seen so far worked for me.
> My attempts consisted of having a master lyx file which includes 
> (Insert->File->Child document, include type=include) two other lyx files. 
> Then I try to refer to a label in one file from the other. This works as long 
> as I'm building the whole document, i.e. the master. If I try to build only 
> one of them it does not work, I get the double question mark (??)... 
> The goal is the writing of a paper which has supplementary material which 
> needs referring. But besides the cross-referencing the two documents should 
> be pretty much independent (indep. page numbering, titles, etc..) so I need 
> to build them separately.
>
I think you have to use the xr package. LyX's support for this will be
minimal at best.

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 10:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 10:03 AM, Julien Rioux wrote:


I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Richard



Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.

Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?

Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Cheers,
Julien

listing package with multicol

[Kulkarni Shantanu]

Hi,
I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns. The 
ways I have in mind are,
- make minipage 50% of width
- make a table with 2 colums
- use multicol package

Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Shantanu
-- 

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
 wrote:
>>> I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
>>> apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
>>> names in your LyX file.
>>>
>> Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
>> plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
>> make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
>> too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
>> latter routine. But it should be straightforward.
>
> Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.
>
> Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?
>
> Paul, it might be worth researching the list archive.

Thanks, Julien and Richard. I have meanwhile found another BibTeX
file, which fits my needs and does not show the problem that apalike
exhibits.

Paul

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Richard Heck]

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
>  wrote:
 I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
 apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
 names in your LyX file.

>>> Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
>>> plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
>>> make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
>>> too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
>>> latter routine. But it should be straightforward.
>> Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.
>>
Indeed.

>> Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?
>>
Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:
   
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard

Re: Show all authors when citing BibTeX entry

[Julien Rioux]

On 17/08/2011 12:31 PM, Richard Heck wrote:

On 08/17/2011 11:28 AM, Paul Smith wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Julien Rioux
  wrote:

I might waste time learning bibtex's stack language to tweak the
apalike.bst file, but a quick workaround is simply to write the author
names in your LyX file.


Just compare the output.bibitem routine in apalike with the one in
plainnat, and you'll see what has to be done. It looks like the
make.full.names and author.editor.full routines will need copying over,
too, and you may need to change how the names are formatted in the
latter routine. But it should be straightforward.

Yes, I actually know enough that I could do this, but time is finite.


Indeed.


Richard, I think you did tweak apalike.bst in an older thread?


Yeah, I do a lot of such tweaking:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/426413473488bfce#

Richard




What? What are those % signs? *Comments*, you say? ;)

--
Julien

Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Hi,

how does one change the page numbering format to the following:

[Page number] / [Total number of pages]



Example:

At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a total of 15
pages, I would like the PDF file to display "5 / 15".

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:03:36 PM ChiPro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how does one change the page numbering format to the following:
> 
> [Page number] / [Total number of pages]
> 
> 
> 
> Example:
> 
> At the bottom (center) of the fifth page of the document that has a
> total of 15 pages, I would like the PDF file to display "5 / 15".
> 
> Thanks!

Try these:

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/lastpage

http://www.ctan.org/pkg/totpages

I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[ChiPro]

Steve Litt  troubleshooters.com> writes:

> I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the 
> suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
> 
> SteveT
> 

Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my Mac?
(I'm a beginner)

Thanks!

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:58 PM, ChiPro  wrote:
> Steve Litt  troubleshooters.com> writes:
>
>> I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were the
>> suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>
> Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this package on my 
> Mac?
> (I'm a beginner)
>
See Help > Customization > Section 5 for some pointers.
Liviu

Re: MacTeX/XeTeX pdf setting problems

[shyam basnet]

I was also having the same problem while trying to view pdf or Xetex with
Miktex. I re-install the Miktex 2.8, the old one, and resolved the problem.
You may try the older version of Mactex.

Shyam

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:

> Maria Gouskova wrote:
> > LaTeX Error: Command \B already defined.
> > LaTeX Error: Command \T already defined.
> >
> >
> > \newcommand{\B}[2][0]{\Bk{#1}{0}{#2}}
>
> This line is from xyling.sty. I suppose it conflicts with some other
> package,
> which defines \B before xyling is loaded.
>
> You can try to find out more by adding \show\B in the preamble before
> xyling
> is loaded. This outputs the current definition of the macro to the
> preamble,
> by which you can search (via spotlight) the responsible package.
>
> HTH,
> Jürgen
>

Re: Page numbering: [Page #] / [Total # of pages]

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday, August 17, 2011 04:58:29 PM ChiPro wrote:
> Steve Litt  troubleshooters.com> writes:
> > I asked this exact question a couple years ago, and those were
> > the suggestions. I think I got lastpage to do what I wanted.
> > 
> > SteveT
> 
> Thanks Steve. Even more basic question, how do I install this
> package on my Mac? (I'm a beginner)

:-)

I guarantee you, as much of a beginner as you are with LyX, I'd be 
more of a beginner on Mac. I think between 1984 and now I've logged 
about 10 hours on a Mac.

On Linux you go to CTAN, download the package, put it in your LaTeX 
tree, and run the texhash program, then in your LyX document 
properties LaTeX Preamble you put \usepackage{lastline} or 
\usepackage{totpages}, and in your actual document text follow the 
directions in the package documentation.

Since you're a newbie I'm going to give you a piece of advice -- do as 
I say, not as I do. I personally use LaTeX to finesse a lot of what I 
need to do. On the other hand, there are many people on this list who 
can instantly find a package to do what I'd spend a half a day 
finessing. Those guys are a lot more productive than I. So become one 
of them -- get really familiar with what CTAN offers, and how to 
quickly find a package to enable a certain feature. There must be an 
efficient way to do it, because a lot of people on this list can do it 
instantly.

I have one other piece of advice for you, but let's wait until you're 
in a position where you can't get your title page or other front 
matter to look like you want it, and then ask me.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: listing package with multicol

[Paul Rubin]

Kulkarni Shantanu  lists.shantanukulkarni.org> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> I have to split a program code (done using listing package)in 2 columns.
> The ways I have in mind are,
> - make minipage 50% of width
> - make a table with 2 colums
> - use multicol package
> 
> Which of these is preferred? Or any other way that is recommended?
> 

It might depend on why you have to split the code. If it's just to reduce the
height of the listing, I'd probably use the multicol package with the multicols
option in the listing.

Paul