lyx-intro-for-economics.lyx

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\begin_layout Title
Introduction to LyX for economics students 
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C Barrington-Leigh
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McGill, October 2014
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Introduction and setup
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There's nothing particular about usage for Economics, except perhaps for
 the choice of citation style and bibliography style.
 However, I've put this file together help get students (and colleagues!)
 up and running for the first time.
 There are three steps; allocate one hour or 90 minutes to go through them:
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Download and install LyX (and anything else that the Download page says you
 need, like a LaTeX installation): 
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http://lyx.org
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Read a tutorial.
 Start up LyX and, under the Help menu, find and go through the Tutorial.
 Then browse through the User Guide.
 The tutorial is 
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 to understand the major differences in mindset between a compiled typesetting
 language and the dominant alternative.
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Go through this example, by:
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Download a BibTeX citation from a journal page or Google Scholar.
 To get Google Scholar to show you BibTeX links by default, directly its search
 results page, just edit your Scholar preferences.
 Similarly, you should tell Scholar that you are at McGill (or etc) to get
 it to include links to the library subscription (free) versions of articles.
 The journal copies (ie, on the publisher's page) of citation data are better
 than Google's, in general, as the latter are automatically generated.
 Each article on a journal's web page will have a link to download or view
 the citation, and BibTeX will be the top or one of the top choices of format.
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Use a text editor to edit the citation and either save it as a new file,
 
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mytopic.bib
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, or add it to an existing BibTeX database like 
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learningexample.bib
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, which comes with this file.
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Using a 
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 by pasting or loading it in.
 Change the first line, which is called the 
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, of the BibTeX entry, to my preferred format:
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@article{author1surname-author2surname-AER2011-keyword1-keyword2,
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That is, separate the authors' surnames by dashes, followed by the journal
 abbreviation or acronym and the year of publication, followed, optionally,
 by some keywords or title words, also separated by dashes.
 The key is followed by a comma to conform to the database format.
 Save your file.
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If you've made a new BibTeX
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 by clicking on the Bibliography box at the bottom and adding it.
 You can include as many .bib files as you need.
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Insert some new citations (Insert -> Citation) into this document to make
 use of your new entry.
 
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Compile your document to PDF (Ctrl-R or Command-R).
 If you get an error, it is likely a problem with the formatting of your
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After this, you will be ready to make your own documents, nearly from scratch.
 However, it'll be best to start from (copy and edit) this one at first,
 because there are a few settings set for you already.
 To start from scratch, here are the things you'll want to set up:
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Under Document 
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Bibliography, set your defaults to Natbib.
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document defaults
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 to apply it to your future documents too.
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PDF, turn on Hyperref.
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Insert a bibliography into your document, and choose one (or more) BibTeX file
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Annotated bibliography
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Here we introduce each bibliographic reference.
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 said some things.
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.
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Equations
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.
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