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I've never used Lyx, but this sounds like a job for a scripting language like perl, python, ruby, etc. That's the way I would do it.

Now that I think about it, you could write a script to make your column conform to a bibtex entry type, or create your own entry type, and then run bibtex on it ...

OK, I confess I'm an anti-MS bigot. I think I have good reasons, but most people who deal with me regularly are used to my MS-rants.

In my lab, when a new person shows up, one of the first lectures I give is the "When I was a child, I computed as a child, but when I became a man, I put away ...

Thanks for the time to answer this. I'll check it out when I have a moment (at work now).

I actually did know about the *{n}{type} construction, but didn't know you could use it with counters as you describe. I think that your solution will eminently solve my problem.

I appreciate your time on ...

I haven't double-checked, but I'm pretty sure that you can't use verbatim (which tells tex not do do any aligning) in a tabular env (which is all about aligning).

Try this:


\parbox{10cm}{%
\hrule
\begin{verbatim}
Welcome to Boxy’s paragraph.
We sincerely hope you’ll
all enjoy the show.\\
\end ...

You have to type that command at a terminal prompt. If you don't know what that is, you have to learn about that before you do anything else in linux. It's impossible to use linux without using a terminal a lot. A real lot.

Congrats on moving to a grownup OS, but you have to break some bad MS ...

One of the things I like about our interaction, frabjous, is that we're mostly both right :-) .

You are correct that the symbol you posted is what one would normally get when using \mathcal{L}.

I was correct in that when *I* used \mathcal{L} I got the other symbol (the one you said was more ...

frabjous,

I think that's the \mathcal{L} symbol. That works for me for Laplace. What's the problem with it?

I'll give you tuppence if you give us enough info to help you.

I found the (or maybe just a) problem. You don't need to have to reset the counters if you don't use \backmatter in thesis.tex. So, I plugged in my solution, commented out \backmatter, and it worked just like the tstbook file I posted. I changed the appendices so that there are multiple sections and ...

I think I've run into this problem before. Iirc the problem is that TeXnicCenter doesn't know how to do nomenclatures.

I think I solved it by running the makeindex command manually, e.g.
$> makeindex main.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o main.nls

and then you have to run latex again.

I know that this works ...