LyX ⇒ About Footnotes

[ifadiyimu]

I'm using the class Article APA and class option MAN. The thing is that when I insert a footnote it appears at the end of the document in a separate page. I want it to appear at the end of the page where the footnote is placed. If use other classes it does it but not with the APA. Thanks.

Andres

[cgnieder]

Hi Andres,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

This is wanted and documented behaviour for the apa class with the option man. Citing the manual (emphasis by me):

Manuscript look (man mode)

In man mode, apa.cls typesets a title page, abstract page, text body, then references, appendices, author notes, footnotes, tables, figure captions, and figures. All text is double spaced. The title page contains the (centered) title, author name, affiliation, short title, and the running head (automatically capitalized). A note may be inserted in place of each table and figure in the text. The title is printed as a heading at the beginning of the text. \leftheader is ignored while the contents of \note are printed under the author names and affiliations, typically the date of submission. The “Author Notes” page contains the contents of \acknowledgements. A footnote page is produced if there is at least one footnote in the text.

Regards

[ifadiyimu]

Thanks Clemens for the fast reply. I just started using Lyx yesterday so I've just started getting my feet wet. Question: so there's no way to "edit" or customize classes? Thanks again.

[cgnieder]

Well, there's always a way... Most times it is easier directly with LaTeX than in LyX, though. However, it isn't recommended to change classes if they don't offer options to do so.

In this specific case I don't think it is a good idea to change the class. It probably is wanted/required by the APA that the footnotes are collected on a separate page. If you need this class for submission to the APA you shouldn't change it. If you don't need it for that you could always use a less specified and more generic class like scrartcl.

Regards

[scottkosty]

Well, there's always a way... Most times it is easier directly with LaTeX than in LyX, though. However, it isn't recommended to change classes if they don't offer options to do so.

In this specific case I don't think it is a good idea to change the class. It probably is wanted/required by the APA that the footnotes are collected on a separate page. If you need this class for submission to the APA you shouldn't change it. If you don't need it for that you could always use a less specified and more generic class like scrartcl.

Regards

+1

Also note that you should probably be using apa6. apa is no longer maintained:
http://ctan.unixbrain.com/macros/latex/ ... pa6/README

The apa6 class is an update of
older code from the apa class (available from CTAN), which is no
longer being maintained. New features have also been added, such as
suppressing references to one's own work to facilitate masked reviews
of manuscripts by independent reviewers. See the documentation for
details.

LyX does not have support for apa6. You could file an enhancement request here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac

Scott

[ifadiyimu]

Thank you guys. One quick question, how can I install this macro and make it work? Thanks.