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[LyX User]

Hi all. I have a few questions regarding LyX:

1) How can I remove the automatic numbering i.e. [1], [2] etc. in the bibliography/references?

2) I would like to add a horizontal line in my bibliography where I have the same author/authors rather than writing their name more than once. How can I do this?

3) I would like to alter the header by having my name and page number on even pages, and the title of my document on odd pages. How can this be done?

4) I would like to alter equation numbers according to my needs. Specifically, rather than having equations listed as (1), (2) etc., I would like to alter numbered equations as (section. equation) i.e. (1.12) etc. How can this be done?

5) Is it possible to draw diagrams in LyX i.e. demand curves etc. or do I have to draw them explicitly in Microsoft Word and then paste them into a relevant float?

Sorry for so many questions but I would appreciate it greatly if any of them can be resolved.

Thanks for your time.

[meho_r]

Hi all. I have a few questions regarding LyX:

1) How can I remove the automatic numbering i.e. [1], [2] etc. in the bibliography/references?

2) I would like to add a horizontal line in my bibliography where I have the same author/authors rather than writing their name more than once. How can I do this?

I suggest you take a look at biblatex. Using, e.g., author-title bibliography and cite style will automatically solve both of these.

3) I would like to alter the header by having my name and page number on even pages, and the title of my document on odd pages. How can this be done?

Use fancyhdr for custom headers/footers.

4) I would like to alter equation numbers according to my needs. Specifically, rather than having equations listed as (1), (2) etc., I would like to alter numbered equations as (section. equation) i.e. (1.12) etc. How can this be done?

Use chngcntr, \counterwithin command.

5) Is it possible to draw diagrams in LyX i.e. demand curves etc. or do I have to draw them explicitly in Microsoft Word and then paste them into a relevant float?

Take a look at pgf/tikz package. You don't have to use MS Word explicitly for that: you can use any software you like and export the result as a PDF file (or PNG, JPG..., but vector graphics is better than bitmap for this purpose) then import it as a figure into your .tex document.

In the attachment is an example to get you going. To simplify things and avoid path related problems, for starters please extract .lyx and .bib files into C:\Test folder. Also, note that you'll have to use LyX 2.0.0rc2 version.