Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Well, I don't know much about bibliography handling. But if Biblatex is > so useful, why isn't there support for this in LyX?
Because it is such a complex package, and because you can use it quite well with the workarounds documented on the wiki (that's why I never really feel urged to dive into it: because biblatex works sufficiently well for me with LyX as is). > Jürgen is our linguist and you should discuss with him what can be done > for proper support. Someone with much time and a good deal of knowledge on both UI and core side is required. The biblatex user interface derives in many ways from that of BibTeX. Many core and UI changes thus need to be made. (Julien Rioux already provided some substantial stuff, in particular the Citation Engine modules, but I suppose he also ran out of time). > Jürgen, what is the status and could you please review if this text > makes sense to be included to the user guide: > > --------------- > > >>> 6.5.3 Bibliography databases (BibLaTeX) > >>> Bibliography ! Databases > >>> Bibliography ! BibLaTeX > >>> > >>> BibLaTeX is a modern and more powerful approach to managing > >>> bibliographies. It is, unlike BibTeX that uses its own language for > >>> formatting of the bibliography, entirely based on TeX macros, which > >>> makes it easily configurable for anyone with a good knowledge of > >>> LaTeX. It also employs a very capable bibliography processor, biber, > >>> that enables the use of many bibliography sorting schemes, multiple > >>> bibliographies within one document, their division by the document > >>> parts (chapters, sections) or topics (keywords). BibLaTeX, with biber, > >>> fully supports Unicode, and has been localized to many languages. The > >>> user guide begins with Chapter 3 in the Package Documentation at > >>> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/biblatex. > >>> > >>> Even though it has no support for BibLaTeX built in, LyX can still be > >>> made to use it with a few simple tricks. Detailed instructions can be > >>> found at http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex. Looks good. Jürgen > --------------- > > > I also notice that the title of the next subsection - "Bibliography > > layout" is a bit vague. I think this should be > > > > 6.5.4 Citation format > > Bibliography ! Citation format > > Indeed. I changed this now. > > regards Uwe
