Re: View of Lyx

2004-07-01 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 18:21, Jan Smid wrote: Is it somehow configurable to let the text on screen appear a little bit more like the printed version? Whoo... That wouldn't be in accordance with the WYSIWYM princip of LyX. If you need somthing like this you might want to use OpenOffice with

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

2004-07-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:56, Varun Reddy wrote: Is there any reference material on how to use Bibdesk with Lyx? I assume Bibdesk is a kind of BibTeX-editor. Create a bib-file in the application and then read the documentation about references in the LyX manual. Here you'll find a

Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead of [autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-28 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 22:31, Matej Cepl wrote: put round in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib. Thanks. But that require using a Bib-file instead of the build-in bibliography feature, right? I was trying to

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:09, Angus Leeming wrote: Your call of course, but this means that you'll end up cutting and pasting references from one lyx file to another as you write more and more articles. Much better to have them all in one, checked database. OK. I am convinced. I'll give it

Online bibtex-ressources (for social science)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Is is possible to lookup literature on some online ressource (e.g. Amazon) and get ready made bibtex entries, so you don't have to type it in by hand? Is there a bibtex manager that can do this kind of lookup? Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science.

Re: lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:20, Tim Michelsen wrote: The whole thing is great. I think I collegue of mine will soon move over. He works on TeXniccenter. :-( But a major drawback - as stated in my initial post - he needs a citation method for humanities (economies) including citation inside

\nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there, I would like to show all (or additional) literature from my bib-file in the bibliography, and not just the literature I am citing. I have tried to follow the advise at: http://www.texnik.de//bibtex/bibtex.phtml#cite* by inserting \nocite{*} as ERT in my LyX document. But this

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:25, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Is the \nocite* ERT the only citation? LyX is calling natbib only if you have inserted a citation inset. No, the \nocite is not the only citation. There are a few normal citations in the text as well. There are two options: - put

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:36, Rob S wrote: Try adding this to the document preamble - it works using \nocite{*}, apalike and Natbib producing the output as you require: [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED] , #2\fi)} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank. Now all my literature is listed in a apa like

Re: Online bibtex-ressources (for social science)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:29, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: That's exactly what Amatex does: http://www.2ndminute.org:8080/amatex/pages/main.jsp Beautiful! Just typed in two random (but thesis relevant) books from my table and Amatex produced the BibTex-entry. Thanks. Janus -- Roskilde

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:07, Angus Leeming wrote: Insert-Note[ Insert-Citation ] Ah, ok. Nope. LyX will only add \usepackage[...]{natbib} to the generated LaTeX file if it sees that you have a citation entry. OK. I already have a few citations in the text. Janus -- Roskilde

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:35, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Not strange at all. The problem is that apalike.bst has not been designed for natbib, but for a different package (apacite.sty). So don't expect it to work with natbib. Ah. Thanks a lot. I was not aware of that. I guess I need to

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-13 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 13 May 2005 14:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied parts of your post to this page Great. The answer from Jürgen is excellent. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and

Re: Testers wanted --- LyX 1.3.6 prerelease (Windows)

2005-06-08 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 19:43, Angus Leeming wrote: Sure! Only the 55 strings in english.nsh ( http://tinyurl.com/8ukxa ) need translating. Here it is. Two things: 1) The translation is OK, but not perfect, since I haven't seen the sentences in context yet, but if these strings goes into

Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I am writing my master thesis using Lyx. So far I am happy about it, except from a few BibTex-related problems that are quite critical: 1) When trying to compile the Lyx-doc (show as PDF); I get an error message if the title or author fields contain Danish characters such as æ, ø and

One more BibTex question

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Oh, I forgot: In my bibliography I always get the titles in lowercase letters (e.g. New gm crops - new debate). This is the way it should be in most cases, but sometimes I need to be able to have a title like: New GM crops - new debate. How do I do that? I am sure there is some kind of tag

Re: One more BibTex question

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 16:30, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I think maybe you are using the wrong refernce type. If you use article and put the Danish... as the author then yes you will get the abbreviation. You could try using book and then putting The Danish... as publisher. Have a play with the

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 17:33, Sam Lewis wrote: Try to enter {the name of the author} in brackets, as in the following example. This should ensure that the output in your reference section and throughout the text will be in the desired format. Thanks! That did the trick. :-) produces the

Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am using NatBib with author-year citation. On my PC I have the following styles available for NatBiB: /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/abbrvnat.bst /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/plainnat.bst /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/unsrtnat.bst as described in the NatBib documentation (which

Re: Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 19:05, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Earlier you mentioned you wanted an apalike reference set up. Select the NatBib package ffrom Layout-Document Did that already. Then select the apalike settings when you do Insert-ListsTOC-BibTex Reference But as far as I understand the

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
= {{The Danish Board of Technology}}, institution = {{The Danish Board of Technology}}, owner = {Janus Sandsgaard}, } For example, IMHO the author of the report shouldn't be an institution, but some person. Institution is then just in the field institution of @techreport. I agree. But if if I do

NatBib problem: one author with more than one publication in the same year == Error message

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
In my bib-file I have an author who have written more than one publication in a year. When citing these publications I would expect NatBib to handle it by doing something like: Sandsgaard, Janus (2004a) Sandsgaard, Janus (2004b) (this is what apalike does). But instead I get an error message:

Re: NatBib problem: one author with more than one publication in the same year == Error message

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Attached: My first .bst file made (somewhat in blind) in 5 minutes using makebst. Do not understand why this one works when there are problems with the ones from the author of NatBib. Janus On Wednesday 22 June 2005 15:32, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: In my bib-file I have an author who have

Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am working on a LyX document on a Linux PC, but from time to time I need to work on a laptop. It is safe to move my document between LyX on Mac OSX (or WinXP) and Linux? Does the OSX version support NatBib? Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science.

Re: Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 29 July 2005 13:16, Georg Baum wrote: Yes. Several people I know do this on a regular basis, and the file format is the same. Perfect. I am quite paranoid when it comes to my thesis (deadline is getting closer) and was afraid that OSX and Linux uses different character encodings in

Title page of thesis

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I have difficulties with the title page of my thesis. I already have: Title Author Date Name of university (using publishers) I would like to include the names of my super visors after the name of the university. I have tried with different possibilities (Extratitle an additional publisher

Re: Title page of thesis

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:58, Kimmo Elo wrote: My suggestion: Write the name of the university using the publishers style, then press Crtl+Enter in order to continue using the publishers style, add first supervisor's name, press Ctrl+Enter to add second supervisor' name and so on.

Re: wrong language in bibliography

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:55, Dean wrote: I'm having a strange problem with my bibliography. I think the wrong language is being used only in the bibiliography (the rest of the document s ok). My bibliography is generated by bibtex, and the bibtex file looks fine, but I see things like

LyX bug with date in template (?)

2001-12-05 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
[Jürgen ask me to post this message in the user-mailinglist; not the developerlist, so here we go] I run LyX v. 1.1.6fix3 and notices something odd: When I write a letter using the letter.lyx-template the template uses the actuel date (today) and not the create date, which is a problem if I

LyX-template for meeting resume

2001-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I need a Lyx-template for writing a meeting resume. Does anybody have such a template? Or maybe give me an idea where to get is? -j -- Er der lys mon hos Josbarnet?

Screen shots in LyX - (or: png, jpeg into LyX-documents)

2002-02-13 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Screen shots in LyX - (or: png, jpeg into LyX-documents) I am writing a manual using LyX (and I love it!), and need to include some screen shots in my LyX-document. What is the most easy way to do this? I am on a machine primary running KDE with Screen Capture which delivers png. -j --

Re: lyx and PPC processor

2002-02-13 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Niklas Werner wrote: I don't habe slightest problem building and running lyx on my PB G3/500 and on an iMac Rev. A (see, see those things still exist...). I'm running SuSE/ppc 7.1 and 7.3. Hi Niklas You are my hero. :-) I am on a PB G3/400 Pismo with SuSE 7.3.

Re: lyx and PPC processor

2002-02-14 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Niklas Werner wrote: Am Mittwoch 13 Februar 2002 19:55 schrieb Janus Sandsgaard: On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Niklas Werner wrote: I don't habe slightest problem building and running lyx on my PB G3/500 and on an iMac Rev. A (see, see those things still exist...). I'm

Re: lyx and PPC processor

2002-02-14 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Niklas Werner wrote: yepp, though it's still the 7.1-build, but it runs smoothly on my 7.3. you'll find it on ftp.sylvan.com or ftp.lyx.org. There's also a small readme showing what you need (eg. libgcc3). mail me, if you come across any problems... hmmm... while trying

Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
] tmp]# What to I do? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 23:50, Robin Turner wrote: Use urpmi with the allow nodeps option. And this won't cause problems? Why does it Ask for an old qt? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

alternative BibTex styles for LyX

2003-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am currently trying to get an overview of the integration between BibTex and LyX. Where can I find alternative styles for BiBTex in Lyx? Thanks! -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Problems installing Lyx 1.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2003-07-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
averything about the BibTex integration. I want to use LyX for my academic work - and I am working on a small book about Linux-tools for students and researcher at non-technical educations at Danish universities. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Example of CV in LyX

2003-07-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Does anyone have examples of the use of the Curriculum Vitae template in LyX that I can see? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Euro symbol not displayed in lyx

2003-08-02 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
pretty sure the Euro symbol is a part of ISO-8859-15. Is LyX moving to utf8? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Spell as you type - possible in LyX

2003-08-02 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi LyX-Users Are there any way to use a kind of spell as you type / flyspell in LyX? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

LyX and SGML, which version of sgml-tools?

2003-08-02 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Anyone with experience in using LyX for doing Docbook/SGML for documentatins project? Acording to the manual you need to install sgml-tools - but which version? -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: a reduce menu bar in lyx ?

2003-08-08 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
lovely. :-) There are pre-compiled packages for RedHat, SuSE, Mandrake etc. on the ftp.lyx.org. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Reports in Lyx - Quote vs quotation

2003-08-25 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Mandag den 25. august 2003 03:24 skrev Kenward Vaughan: Try 'em both on a selection. See what the output is like. :-) Sure I did that allready. My question was ment more like: What is the most correct thing to do? ;-) -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Reports in Lyx - Quote vs quotation

2003-08-25 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Mandag den 25. august 2003 14:36 skrev Juergen Spitzmueller: depends on your needs. http://www.giss.nasa.gov/latex/ltx-298.html Thanks. This is just what I was looking for. :-) -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

BibTeX-editor (GUI) for KDE

2003-08-31 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Does anyone know a QT based BibTeX editor for Linux? I am using Pybliographer, but since I am writing a book about doing academic writing in LyX (and OOo) I want to make sure I am recommending the right thing. Any suggestions are wellcome. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Spell-as-you-type am I the only one interested?

2003-12-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
? If not, please say. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

2003-12-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
the developers to find the right way to design such a feature. -j -- Janus Sandsgaard http://janus.dk

Re: Spell-as-you-type ??? am I the only one interested?

2003-12-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 15:11, Rich Shepard wrote: Allow me to enter a contrarian opinion: No. Until I get it turned off in OO.o such behavior is very annoying. When I write I am focusing on the content; the first draft may well be a stream of thoughts that pours out. I do _not_ want an

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 00:36, Jade wrote: Thanks for making such a nice program ! Yeah. Always great to hear from people, who find their way to LyX. This is the ultimate tool for doing academic reports etc. I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. It's

Writing a thesis which template?

2004-01-02 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am curious: What templates do you guys use for writing thesis/academic reports in LyX? And why? There are different report templates. Is it just a question of personal taste, or are each of them made for different types of needs? I will be writing reports and essays on social science (no

LyX - html

2004-01-03 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual from LyX - HTML? -j -- My baby daughter loves Linux! http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html

Re: Writing a thesis which template?

2004-01-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Saturday 03 January 2004 14:35, Christian Ridderström wrote: I used the Koma Book class for my PhD thesis, but I can't really remember why. Probably because it's better suited to European styles. Anyway, I was quite happy with the result. OK. No idea why you didn't used the report class

PNG and LyX

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
How do I deal with PNG garphics in LyX? I am writing a book and need to work with PNG graphics. I can insert PNGs, but when trying to view the result (CTRL+d) I get: Cannot convert image (not existing file?) No information for converting from png to esp. and then three red

LyX - DocBook/XML

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Is it possible to export and import between LyX and DocBook/XML or DocBook/ SGML? I am participating in a book project where everything is done in DocBook/XML. It's working OK but I'd prefer to work in LyX rather than in Emacs. I love the simple GUI of LyX where I do not get disturbed by all

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 21 March 2004 19:34, Angus Leeming wrote: Use the pdflatex compiler to compile the latex file exported by lyx rather than the latex compiler. I was just about to ask you how to do that - but then suddenly it worked. Strange. Being at it: Are there any problems using PNG insteds of

Relative references to figures

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
When I am inserting a figure (a screenshot) in LyX it is given a absolute reference, such as /home/janus/janus-data/linux_in_academia/Linux_in_academia_book/graphics konq-ruc.png This means that the reference gets broken if I am moving the folder where my book is

Re: Relative references to figures

2004-03-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 21 March 2004 21:30, Rich Shepard wrote: Why not convert the screenshot to eps (ImageMagick's 'convert' will do) and just insert it in the text? Then it does not matter where you have it stored. I need the figures in PNG, because the book project might need to move to DocBook/XML

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Monday 22 March 2004 09:47, Angus Leeming wrote: Yes. PNG is a bitmap graphic format, so images saved as PNG do not scale well. EPS is a vector graphic format although it can also 'wrap' bitmap images. If you're using vector graphics (eg, using some drawing package to create graphs) then

compiler - latex vs. pdflatex (was: Re: Bit-mapped graphics)

2004-03-23 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 18:11, Angus Leeming wrote: The 'latex' compiler can handle eps images only. The 'pdflatex' compiler can handle 'pdf' and 'png' format images. Are there any cases in which the latex compiler is prefered above pdflatex? Or is it safe to say that pdflatex does the same

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex which will be able to handle your images as-is. I am running SuSE Linux 9.0 but cannot find a rpm named pdflatex. Does anybody know if it can be named something

Re: Relative references to figures

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 21 March 2004 22:50, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, that's certainly a good question. If the images are in a directory beneath that of the text I suppose that the relative paths will remain the same. Yes, it works if you manually edit the path from an absolute to a relative path. By

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 23:59, Andre Poenitz wrote: With pdflatex you can use .png but no .eps natively, with latex you can use .eps but no .png natively. I do not have pdflatex installed (I am going to) but still I am able to view PNGs inline in LyX douments and get an output using view-pdf

Re: LyX - DocBook/XML

2004-03-24 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Monday 22 March 2004 10:25, Jose' Matos wrote: Export yes, import no. Is it possible to write a manual using one of the book templates and then later export to DocBook/XML or DocBook/SGML? How? That is also my feeling, we are slowly improving in that direction. Please elaborate a

Example of academic reports

2004-03-27 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there Where can I find (download) examples on academic reports in LyX format with crossreferences, figurs, tables, BibTeX etc? -j -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and Technology in

BibTex output styles

2004-03-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I am working with LyX and BibTex, but I find the different styles do be confusing: acm, alpha, adrfax etc. Where can I find a list of the most common BibTex stykesformats? I am looking for a style which will give me something simple like this in my foodnotes: Bijker 1995,

Re: PNG and LyX

2004-03-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:04, Angus Leeming wrote: As Georg says. No pdflatex installed. Your use-case suggests to me that you really should install pdflatex which will be able to handle your images as-is. (...) Hope that the process is a little clearer. The moral? Install ImageMagick

Jurabib and LyX

2004-03-30 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Dear LyX users Does any of you use Jurabib with LyX? I am writing reports at social science using LyX and BibTeX - but I am not sure if the standard BibTeX styles suits my needs for references. I guess it's because the existing solution it's mostly a tool for natural science - and social

Re: View of Lyx

2004-07-01 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 18:21, Jan Smid wrote: Is it somehow configurable to let the text on screen appear a little bit more like the printed version? Whoo... That wouldn't be in accordance with the WYSIWYM princip of LyX. If you need somthing like this you might want to use OpenOffice with

Re: Bibdesk and LyX

2004-07-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Sunday 04 July 2004 07:56, Varun Reddy wrote: Is there any reference material on how to use Bibdesk with Lyx? I assume Bibdesk is a kind of BibTeX-editor. Create a bib-file in the application and then read the documentation about references in the LyX manual. Here you'll find a

Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead of [autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-28 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 26 April 2005 22:31, Matej Cepl wrote: put round in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib. Thanks. But that require using a Bib-file instead of the build-in bibliography feature, right? I was trying to

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:09, Angus Leeming wrote: Your call of course, but this means that you'll end up cutting and pasting references from one lyx file to another as you write more and more articles. Much better to have them all in one, checked database. OK. I am convinced. I'll give it

Online bibtex-ressources (for social science)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Is is possible to lookup literature on some online ressource (e.g. Amazon) and get ready made bibtex entries, so you don't have to type it in by hand? Is there a bibtex manager that can do this kind of lookup? Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science.

Re: lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 12:20, Tim Michelsen wrote: The whole thing is great. I think I collegue of mine will soon move over. He works on TeXniccenter. :-( But a major drawback - as stated in my initial post - he needs a citation method for humanities (economies) including citation inside

\nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-11 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there, I would like to show all (or additional) literature from my bib-file in the bibliography, and not just the literature I am citing. I have tried to follow the advise at: http://www.texnik.de//bibtex/bibtex.phtml#cite* by inserting \nocite{*} as ERT in my LyX document. But this

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:25, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Is the \nocite* ERT the only citation? LyX is calling natbib only if you have inserted a citation inset. No, the \nocite is not the only citation. There are a few normal citations in the text as well. There are two options: - put

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 09:36, Rob S wrote: Try adding this to the document preamble - it works using \nocite{*}, apalike and Natbib producing the output as you require: [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED] , #2\fi)} [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank. Now all my literature is listed in a apa like

Re: Online bibtex-ressources (for social science)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 10:29, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: That's exactly what Amatex does: http://www.2ndminute.org:8080/amatex/pages/main.jsp Beautiful! Just typed in two random (but thesis relevant) books from my table and Amatex produced the BibTex-entry. Thanks. Janus -- Roskilde

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:07, Angus Leeming wrote: Insert-Note[ Insert-Citation ] Ah, ok. Nope. LyX will only add \usepackage[...]{natbib} to the generated LaTeX file if it sees that you have a citation entry. OK. I already have a few citations in the text. Janus -- Roskilde

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-12 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 12 May 2005 20:35, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Not strange at all. The problem is that apalike.bst has not been designed for natbib, but for a different package (apacite.sty). So don't expect it to work with natbib. Ah. Thanks a lot. I was not aware of that. I guess I need to

Re: \nocite{*} changes bibliography style (when using natbib)

2005-05-13 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 13 May 2005 14:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied parts of your post to this page Great. The answer from Jürgen is excellent. Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science. International Development Studies. ESST - Society, Science and

Re: Testers wanted --- LyX 1.3.6 prerelease (Windows)

2005-06-08 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 19:43, Angus Leeming wrote: Sure! Only the 55 strings in english.nsh ( http://tinyurl.com/8ukxa ) need translating. Here it is. Two things: 1) The translation is OK, but not perfect, since I haven't seen the sentences in context yet, but if these strings goes into

Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I am writing my master thesis using Lyx. So far I am happy about it, except from a few BibTex-related problems that are quite critical: 1) When trying to compile the Lyx-doc (show as PDF); I get an error message if the title or author fields contain Danish characters such as æ, ø and

One more BibTex question

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Oh, I forgot: In my bibliography I always get the titles in lowercase letters (e.g. New gm crops - new debate). This is the way it should be in most cases, but sometimes I need to be able to have a title like: New GM crops - new debate. How do I do that? I am sure there is some kind of tag

Re: One more BibTex question

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 16:30, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: I think maybe you are using the wrong refernce type. If you use article and put the Danish... as the author then yes you will get the abbreviation. You could try using book and then putting The Danish... as publisher. Have a play with the

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 17:33, Sam Lewis wrote: Try to enter {the name of the author} in brackets, as in the following example. This should ensure that the output in your reference section and throughout the text will be in the desired format. Thanks! That did the trick. :-) produces the

Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am using NatBib with author-year citation. On my PC I have the following styles available for NatBiB: /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/abbrvnat.bst /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/plainnat.bst /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/natbib/unsrtnat.bst as described in the NatBib documentation (which

Re: Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?

2005-06-21 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 19:05, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Earlier you mentioned you wanted an apalike reference set up. Select the NatBib package ffrom Layout-Document Did that already. Then select the apalike settings when you do Insert-ListsTOC-BibTex Reference But as far as I understand the

Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
= {{The Danish Board of Technology}}, institution = {{The Danish Board of Technology}}, owner = {Janus Sandsgaard}, } For example, IMHO the author of the report shouldn't be an institution, but some person. Institution is then just in the field institution of @techreport. I agree. But if if I do

NatBib problem: one author with more than one publication in the same year == Error message

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
In my bib-file I have an author who have written more than one publication in a year. When citing these publications I would expect NatBib to handle it by doing something like: Sandsgaard, Janus (2004a) Sandsgaard, Janus (2004b) (this is what apalike does). But instead I get an error message:

Re: NatBib problem: one author with more than one publication in the same year == Error message

2005-06-22 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Attached: My first .bst file made (somewhat in blind) in 5 minutes using makebst. Do not understand why this one works when there are problems with the ones from the author of NatBib. Janus On Wednesday 22 June 2005 15:32, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: In my bib-file I have an author who have

Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I am working on a LyX document on a Linux PC, but from time to time I need to work on a laptop. It is safe to move my document between LyX on Mac OSX (or WinXP) and Linux? Does the OSX version support NatBib? Janus -- Roskilde University, Denmark. Department of Technology and Social Science.

Re: Safe to exchange Lyx documents between Mac and Linux/PC?

2005-07-29 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Friday 29 July 2005 13:16, Georg Baum wrote: Yes. Several people I know do this on a regular basis, and the file format is the same. Perfect. I am quite paranoid when it comes to my thesis (deadline is getting closer) and was afraid that OSX and Linux uses different character encodings in

Title page of thesis

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I have difficulties with the title page of my thesis. I already have: Title Author Date Name of university (using publishers) I would like to include the names of my super visors after the name of the university. I have tried with different possibilities (Extratitle an additional publisher

Re: Title page of thesis

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 04 August 2005 20:58, Kimmo Elo wrote: My suggestion: Write the name of the university using the publishers style, then press Crtl+Enter in order to continue using the publishers style, add first supervisor's name, press Ctrl+Enter to add second supervisor' name and so on.

Re: wrong language in bibliography

2005-08-04 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Thursday 04 August 2005 22:55, Dean wrote: I'm having a strange problem with my bibliography. I think the wrong language is being used only in the bibiliography (the rest of the document s ok). My bibliography is generated by bibtex, and the bibtex file looks fine, but I see things like

LyX bug with date in template (?)

2001-12-05 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
[Jürgen ask me to post this message in the user-mailinglist; not the developerlist, so here we go] I run LyX v. 1.1.6fix3 and notices something odd: When I write a letter using the letter.lyx-template the template uses the actuel date (today) and not the create date, which is a problem if I

LyX-template for meeting resume

2001-12-06 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
I need a Lyx-template for writing a meeting resume. Does anybody have such a template? Or maybe give me an idea where to get is? -j -- Er der lys mon hos Josbarnet?

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