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ProducedPublicationsCategories: Done with LyX << Complaints | Page list | Pros and cons >>Publications that have been produced using LyXIf you feel like it, add examples of work that you've produced using LyX. Others might be interested to know what can be done using it. Add your entries below, try to keep year sorting: Stephen Mueller. APIs and Protocols For Convergent Network Services. McGraw-Hill, 2002. This book started out as a tutorial whitepaper where I work. Once I hit about 50 pages and saw the number of topics and amount of material on each were going to turn the project into a book, I knew Word wasn't going to be up to the job (lost figures, mangled cross-references, abysmal multi-file document support, and on and on). I'd used LaTeX extensively for other complex documents and considered going that route, but it had also been some years since I'd looked into LaTeX frontends. The last time I had checked they were alpha quality at best and there was no such thing as LyX. When I found LyX around mid-2001, it seemed to be just what I wanted. The only question was, "Would it be up to the job?" It was and more so. I used the built-in book template, BibTeX, aspell, and xfig. The book ended up at 400+ pages. I never lost a single bit of work, even using those earlier versions of LyX. I would estimate it increased my productivity over Word by at least an order of magnitude. I now use Word only when necessary and only for documents under 50 pages or so. Anything else, short or long, I do in Lyx. And since the underlying representation is text-based, changes can be stored much more economically in our change management systems. Burchill, J. K., D. J. Knudsen, B. J. J. Bock, R.F. Pfaff, Jr., D.D. Wallis, J.H. Clemmons, S.R. Bounds, H. Stenbaek-Nielsen. Core ion interactions with BB ELF, lower hybrid, and Alfvén waves in the high-latitude topside ionosphere. Submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research, 2003. -- I used a slightly modified AGU class style for this. JKB 030919 Burchill, J. K., "High-resolution observations of core and suprathermal ions in the auroral ionosphere: techniques and results from the GEODESIC sounding rocket", Ph.D. thesis, University of Calgary (Department of Physics and Astronomy), September, 2003 -- I made up a LyX layout file for this, which gives layouts for:
Also got change tracking working for it on LyX 1.3.2, and it was quite useful. Here is an excerpt from my acknowledgements: "This thesis was written using free software. It was typeset with the TeX/LaTeX2e system on the GNU/Linux operating system. The LyX document processor was used for the actual writing. Thanks go to the LyX development team for the awesome software. Some graphics were converted to suitable formats with The GIMP, XFIG and ImageMagick. Sixpack and GBib were used for managing the bibliographic database." (230 pages) JKB 030919
Helge Hafting, Mildrid Ljosland. Algoritmer og datastrukturer, Gyldendal Akademisk 2003, ISBN: 82-05-31144-7, 298 pages Written using lyx version 1.3 with a custom patch to make some things easier. The patch would not be needed today. the book is a textbook on algorithms and complexity, in Norwegian. The publisher specified fonts, sizes and spacing, I made a preamble with lots of modifications for scrbook. After that, writing was straightforward. Anders Ekberg, Predicting fretting fatigue of railway wheel-axle assemblies – a state-of-the-art survey, Chalmers Applied Mechanics, Report 2004:10, 38 pp, 2004, see http://www.am.chalmers.se/sve/researchreports/RR2004_10.pdf. The paper basically uses the standard Article (koma-script) template. A condensed version published in IMechE J Rail & Rapid Transit (vol 218, pp 299–316, 2004) Peter Ljunglöf, Göteborg University. Almost all my publications since 2004 are written using LyX. Most notably my PhD thesis (170 pages with lots of mathematical formulae and algorithms). http://www.ling.gu.se/~peb/pubs.html Vaclav Smidl, Anthony Quinn, The Variational Bayes Method in Signal Processing, Springer, 2005. This 227 page long monograph was produced using LyX 1.2 and Springer svmono style. Consistent look of all included illustrations and simulations results was achieved using:
As a result, all illustrations and graphs use the same fonts and style. Shepard, Richard B., Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic, Springer, 2005. I wrote this 264-page book using LyX-1.3 and Springer's svmono class. Figures were produced with xfig using LaTeX fonts for labels and other text. Using LyX was quicker and more efficient than using LaTeX in emacs, particularly for editing and indexing. The camera-ready files were e-mailed to my editor and the production team and this substantially shortened the production process. LyX has been my principal writing tool since 1999 or 2000. The OpenBSD PF Packet Filter Book: PF for NetBSD, FreeBSD, DragonFly and OpenBSD. Ed. Jeremy C. Reed. Keller, Texas: Reed Media Services. 2006. 193 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0-9790342-0-6. See http://www.reedmedia.net/books/pf-book/. Uses Koma-script book class. Barnsley, M.J., 2007, Environmental Modeling: A Practical Introduction, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 406p. See http://stress.swan.ac.uk/~mbarnsle/envmod Larsen, B.A., Klumpar, D.M., and Gurgiolo, C., 2007, Correlation between plasmapause position and solar wind parameters, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 69, 334-340 See http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007JATP...69..334L Larsen, B.A., 2007, Quantitative Studies of Terrestrial Plasmaspheric Dynamics Enabled by the IMAGE Spacecraft, PhD Dissertation-Physics, Montana State University, USA See http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/view/item.php?id=515 Tyree, Alan L, Self-publishing with LyX, Sage Tutorial Systems Pty Ltd, Katoomba Australia, 2007 Available in print or free download under a Creative Commons licence. Print or download: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Download only: http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf ---- Allison B Tyree, The Restless Minestrone, Sage Tutorial Systems Pty Ltd, 2007 The Restless Minestrone is a cookbook of some 270 pages. It includes line drawings and an index. A recipe is typically a couple of pages long and usually includes a drawing. Layout is more intricate than most books, but not so complicated as to require Scribus or other similar "desktop publishing" software. LyX did the job splendidly. I was surprised at how well the manuscript looked even without any special LaTeX "tweaking". In the end, the only LaTeX required was a few lines in the preamble necessary to adjust the look of chapter titles and recipe lists. Making the index with LyX was a pleasure, and the many cross-references were easy. I used the Memoir class and pdf output. The resulting pdf file went directly to the printer. The covers were done using Scribus. A sample page may be seen at http://web.aanet.com.au/sage Harding, Dawn, Moonflower Bay, Sage Tutorial Systems Pty Ltd, Katoomba, NSW, Australia 2007, ISBN: 780980332414. This is about as far from the "typical" LyX produced publication as you can imagine! It is a romance novel written by a friend of mine. She wrote it using MS Word and was, of course, having a problem trying to get it in a form suitable for publication. In a short afternoon session, we exported it to text and then formatted in LyX. I used a template similar to that described in "Self-publishing with LyX", we chose a stock cover from Lulu.com and the job was finished. Better than Mills and Boon if I do say so myself! Available on Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/moonflower-bay/881739# Alan L Tyree Reed, Michael, 2008, Tech Book 1 - Published articles Oct 2006 - June 2008, Unmusic Books, ISBN 978-0-9560813-1-5 From my site: “Tech Book 1 is a compilation of 15 of my previously published articles. The theme is technology with an emphasis on retro computing, speculative technology, open source software, GNU/Linux and gender politics in technology. The articles were published on OS News, Linux.com and Free Software Magazine, amongst other places. [...] This is a chance to own a hard copy of updated versions of those articles in addition to some retrospective comments by the author.” The book was created with LyX (1.5.0 and 1.6.0) using the KOMA-script book class. The diagrams and illustrations were included as SVG, PNG or JPEG files. As all of the articles were written in LyX to begin with, it wasn't too much work to compile them into a book. The print copies are in a large format of 10.2"x6.62" with 0.75" inner and outer margins. This is actually a comic book format. The e book edition has a page size of 9"x6" with a slightly larger margin size of 1". By visiting my site, it is possible to order a print copy of the book or download a free e book edition in PDF format. In addition to this, you can download the LyX source file for the book and a TeX version of the source. Amongst the articles, the book contains my review of LyX 1.5.0 and a few other small notes about using LyX. Wollner, Maximilian (2008): Was ist politischer Islam? Versuch einer Definition, Diploma Thesis in Political Science, University of Vienna, available at http://textfeld.ac.at/text/1433/ For my diploma thesis I used a big amount of customization in LyX which might be untypical. I made use of XeTeX to use native OS X-fonts, embedded Inkscape graphics, highly customised Memoir as the document class and biblatex for my references. Thanks to the users’ list and this wiki I managed all my desired modifications without having to learn LaTeX too much. Also my computer skills are rather low, I am a sophisticated user rather than an expert. My thesis therefore is a good example what you can achieve with LyX without having to “learn programming” (to exaggerate a little bit). I regularly comment my hints for LyX on my website at http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/, so if you know German feel free to ask or leave comments. The LaTeX preamble for my diploma thesis with commentaries in German can also be found there: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/?p=151. Waluyo Adi Siswanto, ISBN : 978-983-2963-77-6, 2008, Penerbit UTHM, Malaysia, Principles of Engineering Dynamics - Concise Theory and Applications, http://web.uthm.edu.my/pt/katalog%20buku%20karya%20asli%202008.htm Gene Expression Studies Using Affymetrix Microarrays Sleazy, Aaron, Sleazy Stories: Confessions of an infamous modern Seducer of Women, Black Swallowtail Publishing, 2009. 200 page book produced with LyX and the document class "book"; output generated with XeTeX. Joyner, Michael, Cherokee Bingo Animals I, Self, 2009. An example software generated LyX files resulting in Bingo Playing cards, etc. https://sites.google.com/a/vbservices.net/cherokee-games/ Example LyX files available by request. Brown, Richard and Willson, Jane Wynne: Funerali senza dio- manuale pratico per la celebrazione di funerali non-religiosi, Omnilog Books, 2010. ISBN 9780956514301 200 page manual in Italian, with tables, photos, external pdfs and music scores, on the conduction of non-religious funerals, produced using the KOMA Script (Book) class. More info at http://www.ritolaico.com Daniels, Elita F.: Tree of Life (Part I), P.L. & E.F. Daniels, 2010. ISBN 9780980819304 380 page fantasy novel More info at http://elitadaniels.com |