Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved.
It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet
command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'.
I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise
my .bib database.
To have it recognise it I needed to:
1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
bibliography.
2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
each citation to change it.

Is the any way to do this?

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
 Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
 format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
 each citation to change it.
 
 Is the any way to do this?

Try

\renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{%
  \@ifstar
{\AtNextCite{\defcounter{maxnames}{999}}%
 \parencite}
{\parencite}}

in preamble.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Works great.
Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 To have it recognise it I needed to:
 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
 bibliography.
 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
 filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

I believe that's the standard way of using biblatex in LyX (besides
pushing citations from external programs).
No wonder the biblatex module was not working for you.

I am glad to hear your problem is solved.


Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved.
It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet
command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'.
I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise
my .bib database.
To have it recognise it I needed to:
1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
bibliography.
2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
each citation to change it.

Is the any way to do this?

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
 Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
 format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
 each citation to change it.
 
 Is the any way to do this?

Try

\renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{%
  \@ifstar
{\AtNextCite{\defcounter{maxnames}{999}}%
 \parencite}
{\parencite}}

in preamble.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Works great.
Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 To have it recognise it I needed to:
 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
 bibliography.
 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
 filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

I believe that's the standard way of using biblatex in LyX (besides
pushing citations from external programs).
No wonder the biblatex module was not working for you.

I am glad to hear your problem is solved.


Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved.
It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet
command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'.
I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise
my .bib database.
To have it recognise it I needed to:
1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
bibliography.
2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
each citation to change it.

Is the any way to do this?

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
> Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to 
> format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on 
> each citation to change it.
> 
> Is the any way to do this?

Try

\renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{%
  \@ifstar
{\AtNextCite{\defcounter{maxnames}{999}}%
 \parencite}
{\parencite}}

in preamble.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Works great.
Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel  wrote:
> To have it recognise it I needed to:
> 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex
> bibliography.
> 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former
> filename was something like data.base.name.bib and that doesn't work).

I believe that's the standard way of using biblatex in LyX (besides
pushing citations from external programs).
No wonder the biblatex module was not working for you.

I am glad to hear your problem is solved.


Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the tip, Scott.
I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.
Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the
preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx
won't process the bibliography. It doesnt give an error, it simply runs through
and then gives a document without ref. list with the refs. in bibtex code 
format.
To fix it I have to delete the \bibliography{} line in the preamble and then put
it back.

Any ideas why that it happening?

The other problem I have that my references under bibtex8 look wrong.
my preamble line is: 
\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

but the document output looks like this 
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)

instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
as I would expect and as is shown in:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#using-biber

Any suggestions will be more than welcome
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/3/21 Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com:
 I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
 Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an
outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to
the most recent version. Also note that biber versions are tighly
related to biblatex versions. The respective documentations (biber and
bilatex, resp.) tell you which version of each other they require.

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
Still my problem is the output.
no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
and using style=numeric I get:
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]


instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
or
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]

Any ideas how to solve that 

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

Roey,

have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows
you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the
format of your citation.
I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option)
and change the appearance of the citation depending on its context by
right-clicking on the reference.

Cheers,

Stefano

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
 lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
 Still my problem is the output.
 no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
 outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
 and using style=numeric I get:
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]


 instead of
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
 or
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]

 Any ideas how to solve that

 Thanks again,
 Roey




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Hi Stefano,
sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
lyx.
I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and
when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the citation
style under formatting. 

I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
something to do with it.

Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Stefano,
 sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
 lyx.
 I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
 When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and
 when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the 
 citation
 style under formatting.

 I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
 something to do with it.

 Roey

If I understand your problem correctly, you want a a citation to appear as:

this is some that cites a book (Lastname, 1990)

which, in Latex with biblatex using the natbib option and a reference
with Lastname1990 as key would be:

this is some text that cites a book \citep{Lastname1990}

Have you tried checking the Latex source in LyX (ViewView Source),
to see whether you get the correct Latex command?

If that is the case, then I would look at the output of the latex
compilation (DocumentLatex log) for possible biblatex warnings

If all else fails, could you make a prepare a minimal example with the
wrong behavior (one paragraph, one citation) and post it?

Cheers,

Stefano


-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the tip, Scott.
I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.
Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the
preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx
won't process the bibliography. It doesnt give an error, it simply runs through
and then gives a document without ref. list with the refs. in bibtex code 
format.
To fix it I have to delete the \bibliography{} line in the preamble and then put
it back.

Any ideas why that it happening?

The other problem I have that my references under bibtex8 look wrong.
my preamble line is: 
\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

but the document output looks like this 
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)

instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
as I would expect and as is shown in:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#using-biber

Any suggestions will be more than welcome
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/3/21 Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com:
 I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
 Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an
outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to
the most recent version. Also note that biber versions are tighly
related to biblatex versions. The respective documentations (biber and
bilatex, resp.) tell you which version of each other they require.

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
Still my problem is the output.
no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
and using style=numeric I get:
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]


instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
or
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]

Any ideas how to solve that 

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

Roey,

have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows
you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the
format of your citation.
I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option)
and change the appearance of the citation depending on its context by
right-clicking on the reference.

Cheers,

Stefano

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
 lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
 Still my problem is the output.
 no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
 outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
 and using style=numeric I get:
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]


 instead of
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
 or
 ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]

 Any ideas how to solve that

 Thanks again,
 Roey




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Hi Stefano,
sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
lyx.
I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and
when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the citation
style under formatting. 

I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
something to do with it.

Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Stefano,
 sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
 lyx.
 I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
 When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and
 when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the 
 citation
 style under formatting.

 I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
 something to do with it.

 Roey

If I understand your problem correctly, you want a a citation to appear as:

this is some that cites a book (Lastname, 1990)

which, in Latex with biblatex using the natbib option and a reference
with Lastname1990 as key would be:

this is some text that cites a book \citep{Lastname1990}

Have you tried checking the Latex source in LyX (ViewView Source),
to see whether you get the correct Latex command?

If that is the case, then I would look at the output of the latex
compilation (DocumentLatex log) for possible biblatex warnings

If all else fails, could you make a prepare a minimal example with the
wrong behavior (one paragraph, one citation) and post it?

Cheers,

Stefano


-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the tip, Scott.
I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.
Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the
preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx
won't process the bibliography. It doesnt give an error, it simply runs through
and then gives a document without ref. list with the refs. in bibtex code 
format.
To fix it I have to delete the \bibliography{} line in the preamble and then put
it back.

Any ideas why that it happening?

The other problem I have that my references under bibtex8 look wrong.
my preamble line is: 
\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

but the document output looks like this 
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)

instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
as I would expect and as is shown in:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#using-biber

Any suggestions will be more than welcome
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/3/21 Roey Angel :
> I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error
> Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an
outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to
the most recent version. Also note that biber versions are tighly
related to biblatex versions. The respective documentations (biber and
bilatex, resp.) tell you which version of each other they require.

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
Still my problem is the output.
no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
and using style=numeric I get:
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]


instead of
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
or
...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]

Any ideas how to solve that 

Thanks again,
Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

Roey,

have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows
you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the
format of your citation.
I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option)
and change the appearance of the citation depending on its context by
right-clicking on the reference.

Cheers,

Stefano

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Roey Angel  wrote:
> Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick.
> lyx now processes everything correctly with biber.
> Still my problem is the output.
> no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names
> outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get
> ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz(1991)
> and using style=numeric I get:
> ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface Verstraete and Schwartz[1]
>
>
> instead of
> ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface (Verstraete and Schwartz 1991)
> or
> ...make up as much as 44% of the land surface [1]
>
> Any ideas how to solve that
>
> Thanks again,
> Roey
>



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Hi Stefano,
sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
lyx.
I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
When I hover over a citation in the text it says "no bibliography defined" and
when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the citation
style under formatting. 

I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
something to do with it.

Roey

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[stefano franchi]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel  wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
> sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in 
> lyx.
> I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output.
> When I hover over a citation in the text it says "no bibliography defined" and
> when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I can't change the 
> citation
> style under formatting.
>
> I'm parsing citations from zotero through lyz plug-in and I wonder if that has
> something to do with it.
>
> Roey

If I understand your problem correctly, you want a a citation to appear as:

this is some that cites a book (Lastname, 1990)

which, in Latex with biblatex using the natbib option and a reference
with Lastname1990 as key would be:

this is some text that cites a book \citep{Lastname1990}

Have you tried checking the Latex source in LyX (View>>View Source),
to see whether you get the correct Latex command?

If that is the case, then I would look at the output of the latex
compilation (Document>>Latex log) for possible biblatex warnings

If all else fails, could you make a prepare a minimal example with the
wrong behavior (one paragraph, one citation) and post it?

Cheers,

Stefano


-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic Studies            Ph:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University                          Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
 I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. 

You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber 
releases.

 I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?!
 According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down
 menu   of my bibliography generation processor but all I have is: custom,
 bibtex and bibtex8.

You must execute Tools  Reconfigure LyX to make LyX aware of it.

 Where am I supposed to put biber so that lyx would recognise it?

You have to put it in a path (e.g. ~/bin). If which biber on the console 
returns a path, LyX should be able to find it.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the help, Jürgen.
ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my
 document
with it gives an error:
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu
 repository.
I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

Roey

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel 
[angel.r...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM

I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu 
repository.
I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

There is an Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
This allows you to easily install 2.0.3 without having to build from source.

Scott

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
 I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. 

You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber 
releases.

 I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?!
 According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down
 menu   of my bibliography generation processor but all I have is: custom,
 bibtex and bibtex8.

You must execute Tools  Reconfigure LyX to make LyX aware of it.

 Where am I supposed to put biber so that lyx would recognise it?

You have to put it in a path (e.g. ~/bin). If which biber on the console 
returns a path, LyX should be able to find it.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the help, Jürgen.
ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my
 document
with it gives an error:
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu
 repository.
I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

Roey

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel 
[angel.r...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM

I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu 
repository.
I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

There is an Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
This allows you to easily install 2.0.3 without having to build from source.

Scott

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Roey Angel wrote:
> I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. 

You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber 
releases.

> I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?!
> According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down
> menu   of my bibliography generation processor but all I have is: custom,
> bibtex and bibtex8.

You must execute Tools > Reconfigure LyX to make LyX aware of it.

> Where am I supposed to put biber so that lyx would recognise it?

You have to put it in a path (e.g. ~/bin). If "which biber" on the console 
returns a path, LyX should be able to find it.

HTH
Jürgen

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Roey Angel]

Thanks for the help, Jürgen.
ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my
 document
with it gives an error:
Package keyval Error: hash undefined.

I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu
 repository.
I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

Roey

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel 
[angel.r...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM

>I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu 
>repository.
>I could build it from source but only if that's what's  causing the problem.

There is an Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
This allows you to easily install 2.0.3 without having to build from source.

Scott