Yes, I wrote a small patch earlier. I thought I would try to refine it and develop it more once 2.0 is out the door. The most difficult piece it seems to me would be to provide for a failure free switch back and forth from and to Biblatex.
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Diego Queiroz <[email protected]>wrote: > > It has earlier been discussed to try to work on Biblatex support for > Lyx2.1. I suggest to go for that. Biblatex seems much better than any of the > legacy systems. Jurabib has not been developed for years (I believe). I am > not so sure about natbib. but it also seems on its way out. > > Hmm, yeah I see. > The problem is that I am also dealing with the lack of time. > > The abntcite package is part of a so called abnTeX which is a discontinued > project. > So it is full of bugs, compatibility issues, it is not very well design > IMO. > I mean, there is lots of work to do with it yet. > Change it to a BibLatex would be a great improvement, but it needs time. > > > It has earlier been discussed to try to work on Biblatex support for > Lyx2.1. I suggest to go for that. Biblatex seems much better than any of the > legacy systems. Jurabib has not been developed for years (I believe). I am > not so sure about natbib. but it also seems on its way out. > > That's exactly what I was thinking. :-) > --- > Diego Queiroz > > > > > 2011/4/24 Johannes Wilm <[email protected]> > >> It has earlier been discussed to try to work on Biblatex support for >> Lyx2.1. I suggest to go for that. Biblatex seems much better than any of the >> legacy systems. Jurabib has not been developed for years (I believe). I am >> not so sure about natbib. but it also seems on its way out. >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Diego Queiroz >> <[email protected]>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. >>> >>> >>> BTW, the citation style handler appear to be very hardcoded on LyX, which >>> is also far from ideal. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> --- >>> Diego Queiroz >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Johannes Wilm >> http://www.johanneswilm.org >> tel: +1 (520) 399 8880 >> >> > -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
