Hello fellow LyX enthusiasts.
Can we have an xforms checkbox to genereate \citep{} & \citet{} Bib forms
rather than the obsolete \cite{} that v1.0.3 currently supports?
I can sort of see where to hack the source code, but I think this
would be generally useful. Recall, these forms generate citations in
text of the form
(Fred et al. 1999) and Fred et al. (1999)
Also, there should be some way to collapse citations. Currently one gets
(Fred 1999) (Fred 1999a) (Fred 1991) when what one wants is
(Fred 1999, 1999a, 1991) which is accomplished in LaTeX by doing
\citep{fre99,fre99a,fre91} (Assuming the labels are set correctly as
Bibitems.)
Finally, \maketitle still causes grief w/ what I guess are non-standard
style packages (e.g. aastex v5 from the American Astronomical Society)
which don't tolerate the \maketitle that LyX generates. While it is true
that this is a question of "style hygiene" (not cleaning up after itself), it
would be nice to handle this in the layout file for that style as a
user-specified flag turning on (default) or off generation of
the \maketitle by LyX before LaTeX runs. What happens when
the \maketitle appears in e.g. the aastex style is that the
following Abstract disappears. Not quite what one wants!
Other than these minor gripes, LyX works great for me & I appreciate the
effort.
Thanks!
Pls cc any group replies to me directly, since I'm not sure if I'm still
subscribed to these groups.
Gerald Cecil
SOAR Telescope Project
NOAO
