I'm puzzled what you mean here. People have successfully used biblatex
with LyX---though complete and proper support isn't there, to be sure. And
there are other BibTeX styles, such as apalike, that require (or strongly
prefer) some external package to be loaded (apalike.sty, in that case),
which of course one can do from the preamble. What is different in this
case?
Well, I'll explain my case, but I'm sure it applies for other cases.
My citation style package is not compatible with natbib (they crash when
used together, probably because both reimplement \cite command), but it
provides me several citation commands, that are similar to citet, citep,
citeonline, citeauthor and others provided by natbib (but with other names,
as well).
Currently, when I include natbib, LyX gives me support to use all these
commands. From the citation dialog I am able to select if I want the author
enclosed in parenthesis, without them, only the name, the year, force the
author full name, and so on. These are all features of natbib mapped in the
LyX dialog (this is what I call hardcoded).
AFAIK, there is no good way to handle these things without asking the user
to do everything manually (disable natbib, include the package in the
preamble and put all citation in ERT is always possible, but it is not a
good solution).
LyX 2.0 allows customization of how entries are displayed in the citation
dialog.
What kind of customization? I'm really not aware of this feature.
I'm also not sure we're talking about the same thing...
Do you have a link for me?
Cheers,
---
Diego Queiroz
2011/4/24 Richard Heck<[email protected]>
On 04/24/2011 03:06 PM, Diego Queiroz wrote:
I am currently working on a layout for use the ABNT style with LyX (ABNT
stands for "Brazilian National Standards Organization").
To achieve this, I have three things to handle:
1. The document style (*.sty)
2. The bibliography style (*.bst)
3. The citation style (*.sty)
The first and second topics are easy, I can create a *.layout to handle
my *.sty file and LyX can directly use my *.bst file to generate the
bibliography.
The problem resides with the citation style because currently LyX only
supports natbib and jurabib.
I think it would be great if we allow the creation of other citation
styles. This way, when we add a citation LyX will know how to properly
display them.
I'm puzzled what you mean here. People have successfully used biblatex
with LyX---though complete and proper support isn't there, to be sure. And
there are other BibTeX styles, such as apalike, that require (or strongly
prefer) some external package to be loaded (apalike.sty, in that case),
which of course one can do from the preamble. What is different in this
case?
BTW, the citation style handler appear to be very hardcoded on LyX, which
is also far from ideal.
It depends on which part of it you mean. LyX 2.0 allows customization of
how entries are displayed in the citation dialog, but not of how citations
are displayed in the text. That is something we've been meaning to do for a
while---basically, pull out the CiteEngine stuff and related code into the
layouts---but there are a lot of things to do, and there are few people to
do them.
Richard
