LyX Tips: JabRef Whitepapers and TechReports

Just a little thing that had me confused for a little bit...

Inserting references that are Whitepapers. Not really a common practice in thesis papers - but I had one that was released by Autodesk on Stereoscopic 3D as when I wrote my lit review at the time I found it difficult to find a good 'technical' look at how S3D works.

To reference it in my LyX document, I'm using the application JabRef (available for download here)

So to reference it, add a new entry then select "TechReport"

Once that is selected fill in the fields as required. In my instance, I had left the bibtextkey blank, so make sure that is filled in. Once it is, its easy enough to go Insert > Citation and select the bibtexkey and done!

LyX Tips: Glossary

Fiddling around with thesis paper, for those who want to create a "glossary" in LyX. Played around for a bit trying to figure out how to do it - found out how, so throwing this up as reference.

In my thesis, I have a list of terms that appear occasionally and want an easy find glossary or index for people to check these terms if they are unsure.

GIS	Geographical Information Systems
S3D	Stereoscopic 3D
VE	Virtual Environments
Virtual GIS	Virtual Geographical Information System
VR	Virtual Reality
VRGIS	Virtual Reality Geographical Information System
GIERS	GIS-based Intelligent Emergency Response System

So those are the terms above from MS Word. Now to throw them into LyX.

What we want to create is what is known as Nomenclature. (For our Glossary)

First, go to Insert > List > Nomenclature

You should see a Nomenclature label inserted into your document now.

Now we want to add entries to the list. To do this, go to Insert > Nomenclature Entry. It'll populate the document with tagged labels as "Nom:xyz"

Generate your document, and done! What you see is what you get. Your labels are generated in a nice and pretty nomenclature table for all your glossary goodness.

Hope that helps.

Extra info in Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducingGlossary; http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Nomenclature

JCU LyX Thesis Layout

Passing the info on.

For those enrolled at JCU, here's a pretty good layout that David Breitkreutz made and used for his own thesis submission in 2008.

http://davidjb.com/blog/2008/11/jcu-lyx-layout

I'm using it myself and in all honesty, not much has changed really in terms of layout from 2008 until 2010 - the format is pretty much the same. Just grab the files in the post (Layout and JCU New Logo)

All info is in there, and credit goes back fully to David.

Thanks!