Hello everybody.
This is my first e.mail to the LyX users ML.
Only about one month ago I installed on my "not new" PC GNU/Linux, Mandrake
8.1 Distribution.
I need LateX. So, LyX was advised to me as the fastest and simply way to
write LateX documents. In the meantime I have been reading "the tutorial",
something from "the user guide"and something from "the not so short
introduction to LateX".
However, I am stopped on some problem:
1) I need the references section in the form summarized by the following
examples:
Bass, L. (1966). Economics of Nondestructive Testing. Annul Technical
Conference Trasactions, ASQC, pp. 611-615.
Hans, B.L. (1963). Quality control: Theory and Applications. Prentice-Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
....and so on...
So no label is present beside each item.
I have to be able to refer to those item in the article , as Bass (1966) and
as Hans (1963) respectively.
How can I do this by LyX?
2)And if I need to put some instruction in the Latex preamble, in order to
reach my purpose, How can I insert the { and } for the latex command in the
window opened by accessing the menu layout->Latex preamble? Is it possible
that I need such parenthesis {} also in the main document for inserting some
Latex parameter instruction ? And in the case, How can I do? Do I have to
use mathed?
For example how can I insert there /usepackage[bla,bla]{bla,bla} ?
3) I then have to introduce a biographical footnote. But I suppose, for
seeing it in another paper, that it must be without any number? How can I
obtain in LyX o footnote without any label ?
4) When I insert the title and the author name it is automatically added
also the date. I don't want it. How can I delete it?
I have also some other problem but perhaps I will solve them by try and
re-try. On the contrary, the aforementioned ones I was not able to solve and
I am halted.
Please, can someone be so kind as to give me some assistance ?
I thank in advance.
Carlo
