I’ve been using the beta of Lyx 2.0 for a few weeks now. 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. People are using “bimbots” to scrape Facebook.I like this a lot as in my own pedagogy I really try to emphasize the intuitive meaning of mathematical concepts rather than just the plug and chug formulae on the one hand or the proofs on the other. ![]()
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