LaTeX, Lyx, MetaUML & Zotero on Ubuntu

Install GNU aspell

If you have root permissions then just do sudo apt-get install libaspell-dev. If you do not have root permissions then:

1. Download source from http://aspell.net/
2. ./configure --prefix=/homes/dk3810/binaries && make -j9 && make install

Install Lyx 2.0.2

Now download and install the latest version of Lyx.

1. I have to install the binaries to a directory within my home directory because I do not have write access to /usr/bin so I run:./configure --prefix=/homes/dk3810/binaries --with-extra-prefix=/homes/dk3810/binaries
2. make -j8 (replace "8" with the number of CPU cores available)
3. make install
4. If you installed in a non-standard directory then add that directory to your path.

Install Zotero

Download and install from Zotero's download page. I'm using 3.0 beta.

Install MetaUML

(after installing TeXlive 2011)
In the install file, change the directory TEXMF_HOME=/usr/share/texmf to /usr/share/texmf-texlive (or whatever your TeX Live install directory is).

Configuration

Lyx configuration

• Document > Settings:
  • Bibliography
    • Processor: bibtex8 (see Lyx manual sec 6.5)
  • PDF Properties
    • Enable “Use hyperref support”
    • Add a title and Author
    • In the “Hyperlinks” tab:
      • check “no frames around links”
      • check “color links”
      • enter urlcolor=BlueViolet, citecolor=CadetBlue,linkcolor=black into Additional Options
  • If using Document Class “book (KOMA-Script) then add ,usenames,dvipsnames (with the leading comma) to “Document Class > Class options: custom” else add \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{color} to LateX Preamble. See LaTeX WikiBook for more info on hyperlinks and colours.
  • Listings > add commentstyle={\color{blue}} (or DarkOrchid) into the bottom box
  • Page Layout > A4
  • Language
    • English UK
    • Encoding > “Unicode (utf8)”
  • Output > Default Output Format > PDF (pdflatex)
• Tools > Preferences:
  • Output > Default Paper Size A4
  • Output > LaTeX > Uncheck “User LaTeX font encoding”
  • Editing > Shortcuts:
  • Change bind file to emacs
  • Search for "view". Modify buffer-view ps. Delete the ps so the command is buffer-view and change the key binding to Ctrl+Shift+X C.
  • Search for "update". Modify buffer-update ps. Delete the ps so the command is buffer-update and change the key binding to Ctrl+X C.
  • Search for "buffer-write" (the command to save). Change keybinding to Ctrl+X S
• Tell Lyx to pass the -shell-escape parameter to pdflatex. Go to Tools > Preferences > File Handling. Select "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)". Modify the "Converted:" field so it reads: pdflatex -shell-escape $$i . Click "Modify" and "Save". this forum thread gives more details.

LaTeX preamble:

\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
% for dot2tex
\usepackage{dot2texi}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes,arrows}
\usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{textcomp}
% For MetaUML:
% The following is needed in order to make the code compatible
% with both latex /dvips and pdflatex.
\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}


Zotero configuration

Preferences > Export > check “display character encoding on export” and select “UTF8” in the drop -down list.

To enable URLs in references

Download and install urlbst. Then:


cp urlbst ~/binaries/bin
cp *.bst /data/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/bibtex/bst/local/
texhash


(you'll have to use the correct directories for your setup).

To stop duplicated URLs in bibliography

Edit /home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/HEX.default/zotero/translators/BibTeX.js
Comment out this code around line 2099:

if(item.itemType == "webpage") {
writeField("howpublished", item.url);
}

To change the colour of the links (not requried if using Lyx)


\usepackage{hyperref} % required to get URLs into references
\hypersetup{citecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue}


http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips

Use

Bibliography

1. Export your bibliography from Zotero with Actions > Export Library > Format=BibTeX (do not export files). Save to file
2. In Lyx: Insert > List/TOC > BibTeX Bibliography. Press "Add..." and then "Browse" and select your .bib database file.
3. Now add individual references to your text with Insert > Citation.