Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these papers are put together, they form a thesis.. So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I will get Chapter 1 and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? No... I don't think so, but maybe someone else has an idea. Btw, you might also get into problems because the book class doesn't have abstracts for each chapter, which you typically want for an article.. On the other hand, you will hopefully only submit the articles once, so you won't have to change them to article class very often. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, you might encounter some problems. PS: this will work with lyx = 1.2.0.
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, you might encounter some problems. PS: this will work with lyx = 1.2.0. Yes, Dekel is right, I must have remembered incorrectly since I thought LyX would protest (maybe from an earlier verision). Anyway, you will run into some difficulties with the abstract and the title of the article. I played with a workaround that you can find here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/book-article-combo/ Basically I give what will appear as the title and abstract as arguments to different commands depending on if this is for the book or an separate article. Anyway, check out the beginning of the file preamble.tex and the preamble of the article (reviewIntroduction.lyx). But you'll probably run into other problems as well, and some of them are going to be of the type: This chapter will show that... which in the article should read as This article will show that..., i.e. the language is different. Good luck /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these papers are put together, they form a thesis.. So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I will get Chapter 1 and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? No... I don't think so, but maybe someone else has an idea. Btw, you might also get into problems because the book class doesn't have abstracts for each chapter, which you typically want for an article.. On the other hand, you will hopefully only submit the articles once, so you won't have to change them to article class very often. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, you might encounter some problems. PS: this will work with lyx = 1.2.0.
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, you might encounter some problems. PS: this will work with lyx = 1.2.0. Yes, Dekel is right, I must have remembered incorrectly since I thought LyX would protest (maybe from an earlier verision). Anyway, you will run into some difficulties with the abstract and the title of the article. I played with a workaround that you can find here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/book-article-combo/ Basically I give what will appear as the title and abstract as arguments to different commands depending on if this is for the book or an separate article. Anyway, check out the beginning of the file preamble.tex and the preamble of the article (reviewIntroduction.lyx). But you'll probably run into other problems as well, and some of them are going to be of the type: This chapter will show that... which in the article should read as This article will show that..., i.e. the language is different. Good luck /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to > > book. Then I used "include file"? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, > > Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is > to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a > book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would > look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing > together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the > article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these > papers are put together, they form a thesis.. > > So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files > is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I > will get "Chapter 1" and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. > what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one > way is to change the book class for each document to article class > before printing or so.. any other way(s)? > No... I don't think so, but maybe someone else has an idea. Btw, you might also get into problems because the book class doesn't have abstracts for each chapter, which you typically want for an article.. On the other hand, you will hopefully only submit the articles once, so you won't have to change them to article class very often. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one > way is to change the book class for each document to article class > before printing or so.. any other way(s)? You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, you might encounter some problems. PS: this will work with lyx >= 1.2.0.
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Dekel Tsur wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:06:04PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > > what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one > > way is to change the book class for each document to article class > > before printing or so.. any other way(s)? > > You can have the included files in the article class, and only the master > file in the book class. However, when you make a DVI from the master file, > you might encounter some problems. > > PS: this will work with lyx >= 1.2.0. > Yes, Dekel is right, I must have remembered incorrectly since I thought LyX would protest (maybe from an earlier verision). Anyway, you will run into some difficulties with the abstract and the title of the article. I played with a workaround that you can find here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/book-article-combo/ Basically I give what will appear as the title and abstract as arguments to different commands depending on if this is for the book or an separate article. Anyway, check out the beginning of the file preamble.tex and the preamble of the article (reviewIntroduction.lyx). But you'll probably run into other problems as well, and some of them are going to be of the type: "This chapter will show that..." which in the article should read as "This article will show that...", i.e. the language is different. Good luck /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of including all the sections from the three documents in the book-class document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way to do this? I tried Insert-Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so it won't update real-time.. Thanks, nirmal Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
Christian, The thesis is very impressive. It gives me many ideas to try and this some just in time when I'm writhing my thesis too. Thank You, Koundinya - On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: - - Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the - article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class - document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter - in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the - three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class - documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of - including all the sections from the three documents in the book-class - document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class - document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the - sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way - to do this? - - I tried Insert-Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of - errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so - it won't update real-time.. - - Thanks, - nirmal - - Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all - I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. - Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove - all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: - - http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example - - So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: - - http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz - - /Christian - - -- - Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr - Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se - - -
Re: including sections real-time from other files
all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these papers are put together, they form a thesis.. So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I will get Chapter 1 and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? Thanks, nirmal
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of including all the sections from the three documents in the book-class document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way to do this? I tried Insert-Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so it won't update real-time.. Thanks, nirmal Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
Christian, The thesis is very impressive. It gives me many ideas to try and this some just in time when I'm writhing my thesis too. Thank You, Koundinya - On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: - - Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the - article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class - document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter - in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the - three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class - documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of - including all the sections from the three documents in the book-class - document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class - document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the - sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way - to do this? - - I tried Insert-Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of - errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so - it won't update real-time.. - - Thanks, - nirmal - - Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all - I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. - Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove - all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: - - http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example - - So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: - - http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz - - /Christian - - -- - Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr - Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se - - -
Re: including sections real-time from other files
all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used include file? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these papers are put together, they form a thesis.. So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I will get Chapter 1 and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? Thanks, nirmal
Re: including sections real-time from other files
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: > Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the > article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class > document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter > in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the > three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class > documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of > "including" all the sections from the three documents in the book-class > document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class > document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the > sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way > to do this? > > I tried Insert->Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of > errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so > it won't update real-time.. > > Thanks, > nirmal > Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. Then I used "include file"? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se
Re: including sections real-time from other files
Christian, The thesis is very impressive. It gives me many ideas to try and this some just in time when I'm writhing my thesis too. Thank You, Koundinya -> On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Nirmal Govind wrote: -> -> > Hi.. I have three documents which have been written in the -> > article-class. I'm trying to compile all three of them into a book-class -> > document so that each article-class document would be a separate chapter -> > in the new document. I don't want to cut and paste the sections from the -> > three documents since I would like to edit the three article-class -> > documents separately and so was wondering if there's any way of -> > "including" all the sections from the three documents in the book-class -> > document... thus, when I edit any of the three documents, the book-class -> > document automatically gets updated.. I'd like to include only the -> > sections from the three docs and ignore the title, author etc.. any way -> > to do this? -> > -> > I tried Insert->Include file and Insert File but the former gave lots of -> > errors and the latter inserts the file (as is) and not a link to it so -> > it won't update real-time.. -> > -> > Thanks, -> > nirmal -> > -> Hmm.. I don't think I see the problem. In my thesis I'm doing this and all -> I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to book. -> Then I used "include file"? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, remove -> all the unneccessary stuff and put it as an example here: -> -> http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example -> -> So you can look at it and also put it into a tar-ball here: -> -> http://www.md.kth.se/~chr/lyx/thesis-example.tar.gz -> -> /Christian -> -> -- -> Christian Ridderström, +46-8-790 91 37 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr -> Mechatronics lab, Dept. of Machine Designhttp://www.md.kth.se -> -> ->
Re: including sections real-time from other files
> all I had to do was change the class of the article-class documents to > book. Then I used "include file"? Anyway, I'm going to take my thesis, Thanks Christian for putting up those files... what I'm trying to do is to have my three documents double up as articles and as chapters in a book.. so that if I decided to print them out separately, they would look like articles and if I decided to print out the whole thing together then it would look like a book.. in more practical terms, the article-class documents are papers that can be published and when these papers are put together, they form a thesis.. So the only difference between the above and what you have in your files is that in the latter, if I try to print out each document separately, I will get "Chapter 1" and sections 1.x on each article-class document.. what I'd like to see is each one as a stand alone article... I guess one way is to change the book class for each document to article class before printing or so.. any other way(s)? Thanks, nirmal
