On Friday 20 July 2001 13:54, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> On Friday, 20. July 2001 10:56, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > Could you fix this at your end please by playing with fdesign
> > form_citation.fd.
>
> Hello Angus,
>
> I've done this in fdesign and editor. Now it fits almost perfectly into
> the "poor man's 800x600 screen". I've attached the diff (no, I won't
> call it "Patch" this time) with the new sizes and positions (only
> slight corrections on the width). Maybe it's of interest for you. I had
> to edit FormCitation.C manually to get it visible. Don't know why.
> Anyway, there's a diff from this, too.
Many thanks. I'll commit this to the repository.
For future information: to get the changes into form_citation.C, you have to
type "make updatesrc" in the forms subdirectory.
> > This is a limitation of my hacked BibTeX parser. I plan to redo this
> > eventually using pybliographic's extremely sophisticated parser.
>
> That's of course a very good idea! BTW: it's o.k. for me, I only
> thought it *might* be confusing to users with no natbib experience. At
> this point (just as an idea for the future): *If* this is somehow
> possible eventually, it would be nice if the cite-labels in the text
> could somehow show the citation style too.
Again, this will wait till we have a proper BibTeX class. It's in my wanted
list too.
> > > - In layout -> document you can choose the option Author-Year or
> > > Numerical. But what about the other Natbib Options apart from
> > > "numbered" (e.g. sort&compress)?
> [...]
> > All very true. Surely it's not THAT hard for now to export to LaTeX
> > and edit the usepackage command yourself.
>
> This was more a general thought at this point where LyX starts to
> support more and more packages directly. Maybe it belongs to the
> "Supported Packages Dialog: Yes or No" discussion which is currently
> held under another topic.
Sure. The nice thing about coding LyX has been that it's taught me that the
elegant solution is the right solution almost always. Lars has been a pretty
good teacher in this regard.
> BTW: I played a bit today with the new feature (all possible cite
> combinations with and withour "numbered"). I really like it very much!
> The only problem I encountered was a (known) Natbib bug: Upper Case
> gives problems sometimes when NFSS commands are used. This does not
> happen with the default natbib styles like plainnat but most likely
> with selfmade (custom-bib) Styles. But I guess that is not your
> business. So thanks again for this.
My pleasure.
Angus
