On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > Biblatex support is not there. I don't know who wrote that wiki entry, but biblatex only works so far as one doesn't do anything beyond what natbib can do, and also then it hardly works. Of course the point of using biblatex is to go beyond the capabilities of natbib. I suggest we discuss this once LyX2.0 is out the door. > > 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 > > -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
