On 04/24/2011 08:20 PM, Johannes Wilm wrote:
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
I'm aware of that: I filed the original bug. But people are successfully
using it, which mostly means: Successfully using it together with
citation styles, etc, that it provides. Of course it is a hack at this
point and not all its new features are supported (except via ERT).
Help would definitely be appreciated here. Jurgen and I, who were hoping
to get this done for 2.1, just had too many other things to do, and I
can't promise that we won't continue to have too many things to do. We
can provide a lot of guidance....
Richard
