Mhac Janapin wrote: > However, our Department requires us to follow the Turabian Specifications > in writing our paper. So in wanting to use Lyx, I tried to search for a > style that follows the Turabian Specifications... and I don't think I > found one. > > So: > 1) Is there an existing style available (from users here or even a > downloadable one) that would follow Turabian?
I don't know of one. Note however that we have no 'styles' in LyX. Whe have (among other things): - LaTeX document classes (.cls). These are the 'sytles' in LaTeX. They can be used in LyX only with an accompanying .layout file that tells LyX what commands are available and how the document should look like on the LyX screen. See also http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts. - LaTeX packages (.sty). Many of them can be loaded into your document with the \usepackage command in the preamble. - Citation styles (.bst). These define how the bibliography will look like. Some of them require an additional .sty file, too. > 2) If there's none, would it be easy to modify an existing style (without > resorting much to LaTex)? That depends. If you find one that is close to turabian you don't need much LaTeX. > 3) Do I really have to resort to LaTeX? It is quite easy to make a LaTeX document class known to LyX, see http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts. If you don't have a LaTeX class it is more difficult. Searching for turabian latex gave this link: http://gbsmith.freeshell.org/thesis/LaTeX/. Using this is even more simple, since it is not a document class but a package file that can be used with \usepackage{turabian} in the preamble. The accompanying citation style turabian.bst should be selectable in the bibtex dialog once it is correctly installed LaTeX-wise and LyX has been reconfigured. Georg
