LyX ⇒ Installing BiBTeX Styles for LyX

[davis]

Hi there,
I am completely new to the LyX world, but I have already seen its potential power for creating documents efficiently.

Being in the Legal field, I need to abide by the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC2) for my works. Someone has kindly created BiBLaTeX styles, a LaTeX class, and a LyX layout for AGLC2 documents (see here: http://willhardy.com.au/aglc-and-latex/ ). AGLC2 is tricky, because it makes extensive use of 'ibid' and 'above', and from my understanding the files in the link above can automate this process for me (trying to ibid and above an 80+ footnote document is a pain, let me assure you!)

Regrettably, I'm not a computer scientist, and have hit serious hurdles in trying to get it all to "just work".

I use BibDesk for the storing of my citations, as I'm told that it works quite well (I also have EndNote, but I'm not sure how well it plays with LyX, if at all!)

I also am running Mac OS 10.6.6.

Now, I want to be able to use the citations in BibDesk in my LyX document.

If anyone could please provide me with a SIMPLE, step-by-step guide as to:
1. Where I put the files that can be downloaded from http://willhardy.com.au/aglc-and-latex/
2. What I need to do within LyX to insert a citation from my BibDesk database

It would be most appreciated.

As I say, I am not a computer scientist, so please don't assume I have any knowledge about this topic!

Many thanks in advance.

[davis]

Bump please... this is becoming increasingly important for me!

[rdnetto]

These are the relevant paths under Linux, they're probably the same under Mac.

Run the following as root:

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cp *.layout /usr/share/lyx/layouts/ 
cp *.cls    /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ 
cp *.bbx    /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/bbx/ 
cp *.cbx    /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/biblatex/cbx/ 
texhash #needs to be run at the end so that Lyx knows they're there

When you're done go into Lyx and use Tools -> Reconfigure before using it.

If they're not the right ones, you can find them using 'find /usr -iname *.bbx' (replacing bbx with the relevant extension).
Unfortunately I don't know how to use BibTex, so you're on your own with that.