Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM

I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the natbib 
setting? According to 
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  I 
erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the other 
symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 


#yiv1358983027 p, #yiv1358983027 li {white-space:pre-wrap;}

\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might not need to, but knowing would be 
great)

How do I number and label tables I made in Lyx? (or figures)? Can I insert a 
reference in the label?

Also, I need to insert diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex 

I need to answer these questions pretty soon, so anyone's help, as 
comprehensive as possible, would be greatly appreciated, and note I don't know 
much about LaTeX, so I'd like to stay above the hood if possible, though adding 
verbatim lines to the preamble is certainly
 ok.

Thanks!!!

Aaron



  


  

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert - Float - 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:


From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM


I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
natbib setting? According to 

http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  
I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
other symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 
 
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Putting that code in my preamble makes my document give compile errors. I need 
the running header to be in all caps on the title page for an APA manuscript, 
can someone help me do this?

Perhaps the issue is using the Journal class?  See my issue 4) below for what 
I'm considering to fix it.

For my issue 2) I found a potential solution to inserting figures and tables, 
though I haven't tried it:
http://www.lyx.org/Walkthrough3
Does Float seem rather non-descriptive to anyone else?  I say that as a new 
user.

Also, on my issue 3) the question isn't Zotero v. Jabref, it's apa vs 
apalike2 vs any other workable apa style (and perhaps the requisite or 
exclusive natbib)

For my issue 4) I guess I'll just use what works.  However, there is an apa 
option when selecting new document from template. When selecting this, I get 
this error: 

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

The layout file requested by this document,
apa.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output. 
So I would like to be able to use this if possible, but I don't know how.

For my issue 5) I think I'm going to use OpenOffice Draw. Should I export to or 
save as JPG or PNG or something else?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)
To: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 1:23 PM

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say
 by Insert - Float - Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place 
the cursor at the beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give 
it a short label. Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer 
to that figure or table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost 
anywhere, as for Section heads.)

    3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 

    
 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other
 worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5)
 if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic,
 perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use several of 
them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM

I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment
 which requires a running header, 1 inch

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM

I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the natbib 
setting? According to 
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  I 
erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the other 
symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 


#yiv1358983027 p, #yiv1358983027 li {white-space:pre-wrap;}

\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might not need to, but knowing would be 
great)

How do I number and label tables I made in Lyx? (or figures)? Can I insert a 
reference in the label?

Also, I need to insert diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex 

I need to answer these questions pretty soon, so anyone's help, as 
comprehensive as possible, would be greatly appreciated, and note I don't know 
much about LaTeX, so I'd like to stay above the hood if possible, though adding 
verbatim lines to the preamble is certainly
 ok.

Thanks!!!

Aaron



  


  

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert - Float - 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:


From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM


I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
natbib setting? According to 

http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  
I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
other symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 
 
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Putting that code in my preamble makes my document give compile errors. I need 
the running header to be in all caps on the title page for an APA manuscript, 
can someone help me do this?

Perhaps the issue is using the Journal class?  See my issue 4) below for what 
I'm considering to fix it.

For my issue 2) I found a potential solution to inserting figures and tables, 
though I haven't tried it:
http://www.lyx.org/Walkthrough3
Does Float seem rather non-descriptive to anyone else?  I say that as a new 
user.

Also, on my issue 3) the question isn't Zotero v. Jabref, it's apa vs 
apalike2 vs any other workable apa style (and perhaps the requisite or 
exclusive natbib)

For my issue 4) I guess I'll just use what works.  However, there is an apa 
option when selecting new document from template. When selecting this, I get 
this error: 

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

The layout file requested by this document,
apa.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output. 
So I would like to be able to use this if possible, but I don't know how.

For my issue 5) I think I'm going to use OpenOffice Draw. Should I export to or 
save as JPG or PNG or something else?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)
To: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com, lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 1:23 PM

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say
 by Insert - Float - Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place 
the cursor at the beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give 
it a short label. Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer 
to that figure or table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost 
anywhere, as for Section heads.)

    3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 

    
 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other
 worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5)
 if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic,
 perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use several of 
them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:

From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM

I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment
 which requires a running header, 1 inch

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: "Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex" and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall  wrote:

From: Aaron Hall 
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" 
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM

I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the "apalike2" style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use "apa" style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the natbib 
setting? According to 
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s >'s /'s and ()'s.  I 
erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the other 
symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: "


#yiv1358983027 p, #yiv1358983027 li {white-space:pre-wrap;}

\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}"
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might not need to, but knowing would be 
great)

How do I number and label tables I made in Lyx? (or figures)? Can I insert a 
reference in the label?

Also, I need to insert diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex 

I need to answer these questions pretty soon, so anyone's help, as 
comprehensive as possible, would be greatly appreciated, and note I don't know 
much about LaTeX, so I'd like to stay above the hood if possible, though adding 
verbatim lines to the preamble is certainly
 ok.

Thanks!!!

Aaron



  


  

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert -> Float -> 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert -> Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com>
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: "Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex" and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com> wrote:


>From: Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com>
>Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
>To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
>Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM
>
>
>I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
>which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
>APA format. 
>
>Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
>title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...
>
>I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
>I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the "apalike2" style on 
>the right click bibliography setting. Should I use "apa" style? It works too, 
>and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
>natbib setting? According to 
>
>http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
>apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
>natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
>which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s >'s /'s and ()'s.  
>I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
>other symbols for diagrams and formulas...
>
>To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
>inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
>sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
>wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)
>
>My preamble in the document settings reads: "
> 
>\usepackage{indentfirst}
>%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Manage

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[Aaron Hall]

Putting that code in my preamble makes my document give compile errors. I need 
the running header to be in all caps on the title page for an APA manuscript, 
can someone help me do this?

Perhaps the issue is using the Journal class?  See my issue 4) below for what 
I'm considering to fix it.

For my issue 2) I found a potential solution to inserting figures and tables, 
though I haven't tried it:
http://www.lyx.org/Walkthrough3
Does "Float" seem rather non-descriptive to anyone else?  I say that as a new 
user.

Also, on my issue 3) the question isn't Zotero v. Jabref, it's "apa" vs 
"apalike2" vs any other workable apa style (and perhaps the requisite or 
exclusive natbib)

For my issue 4) I guess I'll just use what works.  However, there is an apa 
option when selecting new document from template. When selecting this, I get 
this error: "

p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }

The layout file requested by this document,
apa.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output." 
So I would like to be able to use this if possible, but I don't know how.

For my issue 5) I think I'm going to use OpenOffice Draw. Should I export to or 
save as JPG or PNG or something else?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, curtis osterhoudt <flutz...@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: curtis osterhoudt <flutz...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)
To: "Aaron Hall" <aaronch...@yahoo.com>, "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" 
<lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 1:23 PM

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say
 by Insert -> Float -> Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place 
the cursor at the beginning of the caption and choose Insert -> Label, and give 
it a short label. Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer 
to that figure or table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost 
anywhere, as for Section heads.)

    3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 

    
 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other
 worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/

From: Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com>
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: "Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex" and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5)
 if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic,
 perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use several of 
them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Aaron Hall <aaronch...@yahoo.com>
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org"