Lyx

Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 6, 2007 at 04:59 PM

Derek

>Are you starting a bibliographic database from scratch or can one import existing
>bibliographies into Jabref?

Jabref imports most things, so I exported my biblioscape database as something that imported directly into Jabref. Refer-endnote is what I used. You can also access the same *.bib database in Lyx to add in text citations which automatically add the full reference at the end of the document. So I can fully access the same database in Jabref, Emacs and Lyx

>How do you parcel out your time as between emacs and Lyx
>for writing?

Errmm, still working on this, I’ve only had them installed for a couple of weeks. But I get the feeling that Lyx will probably only be used for “full reports”

>Presumably you could use emacs for LaTeX, as well.

Indeed it does - but I can’t get it to work, at the moment ! See below

>It looks as thought Zoot “as is” would fit in well to this way of working.

It seems to fill an obvious gap.

Useful URLs.

I downloaded the windows version of emacs from http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

This only requires you to set up an emacs directory and extract the files into the directory.

Auctex is the Latex addin for Emacs, and by downloading emacs from their site it is already set up. However, you do need other applications loaded. GhostView, Ghostscript, MikTex, ImageMagick, for me these were pre-loaded because I had already installed Lyx so it was pretty painless install for me. But I see Lyx as part of the whole “package” so I would install Lyx first.

You also need to set up a home directory - instructions in some of the links below, and a .emacs configuration file, except you can’t do this in Windows so you can use _emacs instead.

The Org Mode wiki is at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/OrgMode (addins are called “modes”)

The org mode home page is at http://staff.science.uva.nl/~dominik/Tools/org/

emacs wiki at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki

Lyx wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome

The Woodnotes guide to emacs for writers is at http://therandymon.com/content/view/16/79/

Some comments on the Plannner option is at

http://pigpog.com/node/1974 and the wiki is at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode

That should be enough to get started !

Graham