> > Richard Andrews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) entered the
> following feedback message on the LyX home page:
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> <praise>
>
> To all the LyX team.
>
> Great work.
>
> This is a fantastic piece of software. I've been using LyX since the 0.10
days (circa 1997) and even then it was pretty good
On behalf of the LyX team: thanks! It's always good to get a pat on the back.
> I have just finished writing my PhD thesis (image processing) using LyX as
the LaTeX front end. I used mostly version 1.2.x (from memory) from 1997
through to present day.
Congratulations on finishing that thesis!
> Now that you're all warm and fuzzy I have a feature request.
>
> Having used LyX over several generations for massive document processing
spread across several files I have found one area which could do with
improvement. In particular the insertion of citations. I have recently
updated to version 1.6fix1 via Mandrake 8.0 (I know it isn't the latest but I
don't see this fixed in the change log).
You really should upgrade to 1.1.6fix3 (rmps available from the LyX ftp
site). The fix means just that: BUG FIXES! In fact, 1.1.6fix4 is due out any
day now.
> It is now no longer possible to _type_ a bibtex reference for a citation,
selection must be made from a list box. This seems to require that the file
being edited has the bibliography database included. When dealing with a
multi-file document this is not going to be the case.
>
> I would like a way to nominate bibliography databases in a LyX file without
including them for TeX processing. Perhaps an option on bibtex files to
disable typesetting like with the include facility. Even better would be a
way to group a set of files to use common resources, like document options
and bibtex databases.
I've been giving the bibliography stuff some thought over the last year or
so. (It's my fault that you can no longer type in BibTeX references ;-). The
citaion dialog that you use in 1.1.6 has been extended slightly in the 1.2
series so that it now supports natbib \citet, \citep commands etc, but the
basic interface (a browser to select the BibTeX references to cite) remains
unchanged and will probably remain as it is.
Having said that, I do have test code that stores the BibTeX databases in a
LyX-wide store, rather than in a per-document store (so that we need store
the database a maximum of one time, independent of how many documents use
it.) This won't appear in LyX 1.2.0 because we're currently in feature
freeze, but is, I believe a step in the direction that you're suggesting.
The final step, to not output
\bibliographystyle{style}
\bibliography{database}
when exporting to LaTeX should be achievable now if I understand you
correctly.
I envisage something as simple as a checkbox in the BibTeX database dialog
x export to LaTeX
The user would turn this off if the document was included in a larger
grouping of documents.
I don't use multi-part docs myself, so you'll have to tell me if that is
sufficient. Ie, it's the master LyX document that includes all others that
should contain the BibTeX databases that are exported to LaTeX?
Angus
