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Subject: Re: Managing acknowledgements and disclosures?
From: Richard Heck <rgheck () comcast ! net>
Date: 2012-05-29 14:31:49
Message-ID: 4FC4DDD5.7070809 () comcast ! net
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On 05/21/2012 10:31 PM, Chris Hennick wrote:
> Tonight I decided that when I was citing books or reprints that had
> been given to me, I should probably add an acknowledgement, like so:
>
> The authors wish to thank donors for the following reference
> materials: [#] from Jane Doe, [#] from John Doe, and [#, #] from
> anonymous sources.
>
>
> However, I'll have to manually edit this acknowledgement if I drop one
> of those sources, or if I receive and cite another reprint. It also
> occurs to me that I'd have the same issue if I were buying source
> materials with grant money, since then the citations would determine
> which grant numbers went on which papers. (At least, that's how I
> understand funding disclosure, although as a grad student I'm new to
> the subject.)
>
> Is it possible in LyX to automatically manage acknowledgements and
> grant disclosures, when some of them are tied to particular citations?
>
The answer is that it should be possible to do this in LaTeX---you can
do anything in LaTeX---but it is not trivial.
Most bibliographical citations print a "note" field. One could put into
the note field a LaTeX command that would add an acknowledgement to some
existing list of acknowledgements. So you'd have something like:
\def\addtoacks#1{
\@ifundefined\myacks
{\def\myacks{#1}}
{\def\myacks{\myacks; #1}}}
to set it up, and then in each thing you want to acknowledge, in the
BibTeX note field:
\addtoacks{\cite{mykey}, from Jane Doe}
or whatever. The nice thing about this is that the acknowledgements will
appear in order, though you won't get the collapse [#, #]. The bad thing
is that this version won't work unless the acknowledgement is printed
after the bibliography, which may not be what you want. In that case,
you could try printing the acknoweldgement to a file and then loading
that file on a later run of LaTeX, but that gets more complicated.
Richard
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On 05/21/2012 10:31 PM, Chris Hennick wrote:
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cite="mid:CAPvCkbiky3xM4g9ssoL3MTC7=La3HOtmgO_SJ+9sBu5Jc6+vPQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<div>Tonight I decided that when I was citing books or reprints
that had been given to me, I should probably add an
acknowledgement, like so:</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div>The authors wish to thank donors for the following
reference materials: [#] from Jane Doe, [#] from John Doe, and
[#, #] from anonymous sources.</div>
</blockquote>
<div><br>
</div>
However, I'll have to manually edit this acknowledgement if I drop
one of those sources, or if I receive and cite another reprint.
It also occurs to me that I'd have the same issue if I were buying
source materials with grant money, since then the citations would
determine which grant numbers went on which papers. (At least,
that's how I understand funding disclosure, although as a grad
student I'm new to the subject.)
<div>
<br>
</div>
<div>Is it possible in LyX to automatically manage
acknowledgements and grant disclosures, when some of them are
tied to particular citations?<br>
<div>
<div><br clear="all">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
The answer is that it should be possible to do this in LaTeX---you
can do anything in LaTeX---but it is not trivial.<br>
<br>
Most bibliographical citations print a "note" field. One could put
into the note field a LaTeX command that would add an
acknowledgement to some existing list of acknowledgements. So you'd
have something like:<br>
\def\addtoacks#1{<br>
\@ifundefined\myacks<br>
{\def\myacks{#1}}<br>
{\def\myacks{\myacks; #1}}}<br>
to set it up, and then in each thing you want to acknowledge, in the
BibTeX note field:<br>
\addtoacks{\cite{mykey}, from Jane Doe}<br>
or whatever. The nice thing about this is that the acknowledgements
will appear in order, though you won't get the collapse [#, #]. The
bad thing is that this version won't work unless the acknowledgement
is printed after the bibliography, which may not be what you want.
In that case, you could try printing the acknoweldgement to a file
and then loading that file on a later run of LaTeX, but that gets
more complicated.<br>
<br>
Richard<br>
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