On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 06:19:46PM +0000, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 20.12.2017, 12:36 -0500 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> > Of the 17 preference files of users that I collected [1], none have
> > the
> > BufferParam "\bibtex_command" set.
> 
> FWIW I had in LyX 2.2.
> 
> > I guess we have to weigh the benefit of having lyx2lyx work for the
> > defaults versus the cost of making an assumption that the user is
> > using
> > the defaults. I'm guessing that most users are using the defaults,
> > but
> > on the other hand making assumptions often leads to problems.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > I'm happy to work more on the lyx2lyx (condition on BufferParam
> > default,
> > and address Richard's comment). But I'm fine if you think the best
> > thing
> > is to leave things as they are.
> 
> As said I doubt we have access to lyxrc from lyx2lyx. In any case, we
> cannot provide a 100% failsafe reversion.

Agreed.

> Most probably assuming biber
> when the buffer param is default is the most expectable case.

OK let me know if you want me to work on that.

> OTOH we only support Biblatex officially as of 2.3. So I think it's OK
> if reversion is not perfect.

I would be fine with this also. I guess I won't do anything for now
unless someone has a preference.

In any case, one thing I learned while studying the lyx2lyx code is that
I was impressed by revert_biblatex(). Well done!

Scott

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