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LATEX, LYX, IEEEtran

I assume you are familiar with LaTeX and Lyx. If not please see this good document http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~hsr/ec205/lyx-1.pdf

Here I discuss how we can get Lyx to create documents that conform to the IEEE style. The essence is that IEEE has provided a LaTeX package called IEEEtran which an author (irrespective of whether he writes LaTeX code by hand or generates using Lyx) should use to make LaTeX generate the desired format.

Hence IEEEtran has to be installed. If you are on Linux its easily done by opening (Synaptic) package manager and searching for "IEEEtran". If you think you got the relevant package, just install it.

Now open Lyx and run Reconfigure from the Tools menu. Restart Lyx. Done !!

Create a new document in Lyx and choose "article (IEEEtran)" as the Document class from Documents -> Settings.

By default the document gets formatted into two columns. However there is option for one column as well. This is done by specifying the appropriate class option as seen in the screenshot.

For more class options and other information on using the IEEEtran search the web for a PDF document by name IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf (I got one from here, http://www.ngi2009.eu/IEEEtran_HOWTO.pdf)


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