On Saturday 10 October 2009 11:41:39 am rgheck wrote: > On 10/10/2009 11:38 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > > Problem solved, but I am even more confused than before. > > > > I did install biber and tried it out (after a rather unpleasant time > > spent fighting with perl dependencies..). The problem remained. > > > > As Richard guessed, there was a problem with the encoding of the LyX > > file. Switching to Unicode UTF* in the Document>>Settings>>Language pane > > solved all the problems. After the switch to UTF8, the references were > > formatted correctly, both by standard bibtex and by biber. > > > > I am happy but confused. UTF8 (for bib files) should not be supported by > > bibtex and Lyx (since it just calls bibtex). Yet it works. I am wondering > > if there is some magic going on behind the scenes. > > As Lehmann said in the post I copied, bibtex will in some cases work > with UTF files, but only by accident. (My sense it that the problems > arise with sorting and labels.) So you got lucky with this one. Using > biber, if it's functional, and ALSO changing the document encoding will > give you a chance of having it work all the time. > > rh > Thanks Richard,
so I am going to follow your suggestion and switch to biber. I have installed it and it works fine from the command line after exporting the lyx (UTF8-encoded) file to .tex. If I want to use it directly from Lyx, is it sufficient to specify "biber" instead of "bibtex" in the preferences (i.e. in Tools>>preferences>>File Formats>>BibTeX)? As far as I can tell from the output in the console, lyx seems to be calling biber. Is that all that's needed? You seemed to imply in a previous message that some work on the developers' side is required. Cheers, S. ______________________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall [email protected] College Station, TX 77843-4237
