[Papyrus-L] Papyrus and Lyx?

[Dave Goldman]

Here's our standard, longstanding, info about using Papyrus Version 
7.0 with LaTeX.

(For Papyrus Version 8.0 for Macintosh, which includes extensive 
LaTeX support, see Chapter 51 of the Reference manual.)

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We do not claim to have a "seamless" connection with LaTeX and 
BibTeX. But we have worked with several LaTeX users over the past 
several years to get PAPYRUS to exchange data in a useful way.

(1) PAPYRUS can read a LaTeX manuscript, search for embedded PAPYRUS 
reference citation markers, and write a new LaTeX manuscript in which 
those markers have been replaced with a superscripted number, or an 
author-year citation, etc. PAPYRUS can also create a LaTeX file 
containing the bibliography (although there is still some discussion 
about the optimal use of TeX codes in that file for things like 
italics and spacing).

In this approach, you use PAPYRUS _instead_ of BibTeX.

You might also want to take a look at 
<http://www.in.umist.ac.uk/papyrus/paptex.pdf>, which documents one 
PAPYRUS/LaTeX user's methods.

(2) PAPYRUS can import references from a BibTeX database. We have a 
little converter program that will "normalize" the BibTeX file, and 
then a PAPYRUS import format (based on an early version of BibTeX, 
but modifiable by you) to read in that normalized file.

(3) We have not set up a PAPYRUS output format to export references 
from PAPYRUS to a BibTeX file. But this is a straightforward thing 
for a PAPYRUS user to do.
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