As far as I understand, the shorthand field will only provide a "short identifier" for a certain bibliographry entry (say, a collection), but it will not use this identifier as an abbreviation in other entries (say, articles) that may be crossrefed with the first one. If you're interested to display abbreviated journal titles for articles (but only in citations, not in the bibliography), I suggest the following:
To correctly display the title of the @collection entry, change the journaltitle field into title;
Drop the crossref/xref field from the @article entries;
Add a shortjournal field (with EP as content) to the @article entries (Note: This field is not used by the standard styles shipping with biblatex);
Use the \AtEveryCitekey macro to locally replace the content of the journaltitle field with that of the shortjournal field.
Note: The following example is meant to be compiled with pdfLaTeX.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[babel=false]{csquotes}
\usepackage[style=verbose-ibid,citepages=suppress]{biblatex}
\AtEveryCitekey{%
\savefield{shortjournal}{\temptitle}%
\restorefield{journaltitle}{\temptitle}%
}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@Article{Episkepsis1971:36,
title = {La Commission préparatoire},
journaltitle = {Episkepsis},
shortjournal = {EP},
date = {1971},
number = {36},
pages = {2},
}
@Article{Episkepsis1971:36_2,
title = {Communique de la Commission},
journaltitle = {Episkepsis},
shortjournal = {EP},
date = {1971},
number = {36},
pages = {8--9},
}
@Article{Episkepsis1972:54,
title = {La première Conférence},
journaltitle = {Episkepsis},
shortjournal = {EP},
date = {1972},
number = {54},
pages = {2--5},
}
@Collection{Episkepsis,
title = {Episkepsis},
date = {1970/},
shorthand = {EP},
keywords = {primary},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
\nocite{*}
\begin{document}
Some text \autocite{Episkepsis1971:36}.
\printshorthands
\printbibheading
\printbibliography[keyword=primary,heading=subbibliography,title={Les sources principaux}]
\printbibliography[notkeyword=primary,heading=subbibliography,title={Les sources secondaires}]
\end{document}
This has nothing to do with LyX in the first place, it is just nomencl’s standard behaviour. The \nomenclature command just stores the entry for the list, but it does not print any text. However, you can redefine the \nomenclature command in order to print the text as well. You could, for instance, put the following in the preamble of your document:
\let\nomenclOrig\nomenclature
\renewcommand*{\nomenclature}[3][]{#2\nomenclOrig[#1]{#2}{#3}}
The first line stores the \nomenclature command in \nomenclOrig. This is necessary, since we have to redefince the \nomenclature command. This is done in the second line. Since the \nomenclature command has two mandatory arguments and one optional argument, we have to specify 3 arguments (the [3] bit). The optional argument has no standard value (the [] bit). Then we print the second argument (which is the first mandatory argument, since the optional argument is always #1) as normal text and use the original command that we have stored in \nomenclOrig.
I tried this with LyX, without problems. Note, though, that the two lines will give an error in a document without a nomenclature entry or list, because then LyX will not load the nomencl package and thus the \renewcommand will throw an error.
Best Answer
LyX directly supports the
nomenclpackage.In the main menu, choose the
Insertmenu and thenList/ToC,Nomenclature.You can add nomenclature entries using also the menu,
Insert, thenNomenclature Entry.For further information have a look at the
nomencldocumentation.A very good alternative to
nomenclis theglossariespackage.