Re: Indexing a book

2023-06-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: With biblatex: indexing=cite in the bibliography options. Jürgen, Thank you. I'll read to learn more about biblatex. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Indexing a book

2023-06-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Freitag, dem 23.06.2023 um 15:50 -0700 schrieb Rich Shepard: > I would like to add all cited authors to the index. > Pointers on how to do this (perhaps manually at each document > citation?) will be very helpful. With biblatex: indexing=cite in the bibliography options. -- Jürgen -- lyx-u

Indexing a book

2023-06-23 Thread Rich Shepard
Hi group, I've read the Indexing chapter in the Users Guide, a couple of StackExchange threads plus general guides to indexing. One LyX-specific issue I've not seen addressed is how to add bibliography authors to the index. The book has citations entered by JabRef. Some authors have entries as s

Re: indexing a book

2003-12-01 Thread Peter Harkins
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 07:54:12AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > Wouldn't it be useful to have a forum for scientific and technical writers > (authors of other types of work would have equivalent fora) where the art > and techniques of writing -- using LyX and LaTeX, of course -- could be > shared

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-29 Thread Ed Sawicki
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 14:14, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote: > > > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. > > I hope that it is not considered too off-topic to ask here about the art > of indexing. This morning I bought a copy of Larry Bonura's "The A

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote: > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. I hope that it is not considered too off-topic to ask here about the art of indexing. This morning I bought a copy of Larry Bonura's "The Art of Indexing". The most important insight I have gained so

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-28 Thread Ed Sawicki
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 05:08, Helge Hafting wrote: > Ed Sawicki wrote: > > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. > > The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that > > I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make > > indexing easier. I'm wondering whether

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-28 Thread Ed Sawicki
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 12:04, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the > > devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the > > index-boxes. > > Christian, et al.

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Helge Hafting wrote: > This advice is more work and stands in the way of automation. Still, it > usually results in better books. Helge, I've not before needed to index anything I've written so Ed's concerns have suddenly become pertinent to my book. Your comments are ver

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Ed Sawicki wrote: I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a capability in LyX and whether someone has already

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, John Levon wrote: > > What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked > > word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've > > Not much effort john, Me: I move that such a change be made. Mr. Chairman: Anyone second th

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:04:48PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > What effort would be required to display an index box with the marked > word/phrase as a lable, similar to the way ERT is displayed? In my book I've Not much effort regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice b

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Christian Ridderström wrote: > If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the > devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the > index-boxes. Christian, et al.: I believe the problem is not that index boxes are displayed

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:05:59AM -0800, Ed Sawicki wrote: > I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. > The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that > I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make > indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread Jean-Pierre.Chretien
>>Subject: indexing a book >>From: Ed Sawicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 07:05:59 -0800 >> >>I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. >>The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen

Re: indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Ed Sawicki wrote: > The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that > I find annoying. If you find the boxes annoying, send a suggestion/feature request/ to the devel-list, saying that you'd like to have a way of _not_ displaying the index-boxes. You should incl

indexing a book

2003-11-27 Thread Ed Sawicki
I love LyX but I dislike the way an index is created. The indexed words are turned into boxes on the screen that I find annoying. I'd also like a bit more automation to make indexing easier. I'm wondering whether I'm overlooking a capability in LyX and whether someone has already created a solution