However Lyx/LaTeX has a lot of network externalities associated with it so think twice if you belong to a discipline (like sociology) where editors/collaborators expect MS Word files and it’s hard to find “.cls” and “.bst” files for your journals’ house style. I highly recommend Lyx 2.0 to people who already use Lyx 1.6 or who are interested in LaTeX but are put-off by having to learn a new markup language. This is of great advantage in a long complex document, like a book. (In 1.6 it was so bad I’d run a Ubuntu VM just to get the spell checker to work). After a few months of regular usage, I can say that the biggest advantage to me is the document navigation sidebar (activated by the toolbar’s speedometer icon or “Navigate/ List of Figures/ Open Navigator”), which lets you jump by TOC headings, figure, equation, footnote, or citations. The thing that initially attracted me to it is the better spell checker integration in OS X. I’ve been using it in beta for about six months and I find that it’s a big improvement. From that point it was easy to add the citations to the Bibtex files (or correct the spelling of the keys in the manuscript). Then in Stata I merged the two files and looked for Bibtex keys that appear in the manuscript but not the Bibtex files. Grep ~/Documents/latexfiles/ghrcites_zotero.bib | perl -pe > bibclean.txt Grep ~/Documents/latexfiles/ghrcites_manual.bib | perl -pe > bibclean.txt grep '^key ' book.lyx | sort | uniq -u | perl -pe 's/^key "(+)"/$1/' > cites.txt Likewise, it should be easy to modify them for use with plain vanilla LaTeX if need be.įirst, I pulled all the citations from the book manuscript and all the keys from my Bibtex files. However you could pretty easily work them into an argument-passing script written in just one language. These suggestions are provided rather inelegantly as a “log” spread across two languages. Finding the referent to this missing citation manually was easier said than done and ultimately I gave up and had the computer do it. I was working on my book (in Lyx) and it drove me crazy that at the top of the bibliography was a missing citation. And to think that I have ethical misgivings about forging a user-agent string so wget looks like Firefox.
I absolutely loved the NPR Planet Money story on the making of Rihanna’s “Man Down.” (Not so fond of the song itself, which reminds me of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing “Little Drummer Boy” in matching cardigans).Also, as with Snow Leopard many of the features won’t really do anything until developers implement them in their applications. It sounds good but I’m once again sitting it out for a few months until the compatibility bugs get worked out. TextMate is supposed to run OK with some minor bugs. (Stata and Lyx are supposed to work fine. The user interface stuff doesn’t interest me nearly as much as the tight integration of version control and “ resume.” Also, worth checking if your apps are compatible. As far as the overall style, I usually just go with the basic “article” document class unless the journal provides a cls file (which most of them don’t in sociology, although Sociological Science will do so for accepted manuscripts). That will get your document to have ASA style cites.
#Lyx track changes install#
It’s not a standard part of the TeX install so save it locally then navigate to it from inside the Lyx bibliography dialog. When you create the bibliography make sure you use the asr.bst file. Unfortunately this defaults to “X leads to Y (Author, 2013)” instead of “X leads to Y (Author 2013).” After years of just living with the superfluous comma, I finally realized there’s an easy fix, just paste this into the “LaTeX Preamble” tab of Document Settings. Under “Document/Settings” menu select the “Bibliography” tab and choose “Natbib” and style of “Author-year.” Here’s how you get the citations to meet ASA style.
#Lyx track changes software#
In particular, the people who wrote this software seemed to have no idea of ASA style. Which I can't trace the origin of, but it may explain why theorem works.LaTeX makes beautiful output and Lyx makes it relatively easy to do so by obviating the need to learn a markup language, but woah be it unto him who needs the document to look a particular way that goes against the defaults. Add to the document preamble (Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble) \newref
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