On May 9, 2013, at 4:33 PM, UD wrote: > I repeat my request to activate this option by default, perhaps with a > warning (shown when the option is actually used) that there are problems with > multiple bibliographies. My colleagues have often complained about the > ornate dance that is required to produce the Latex file with the content of > the .bbl file embedded in it. Since this is a routine application (until > journals accept Lyx files, it must be faced each time you submit an article > to a journal), it would be very helpful to have it by default. > > Ehud Kaplan > > > On 05/03/2013 03:23 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/03/2013 02:37 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>> On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>>> On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>>>> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace >>>>> the BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do >>>>> this? I have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement >>>>> become more automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) >>>>> in the newest versions of LyX? >>>> There's an option to export "LaTeX (with Bib)", which includes the >>>> contents of the bbl file in the LaTeX file itself. Which is usually what >>>> they want. >>>> >>>> rh >>>> >>> I just updated to LyX 2.0.5.1, but do not see the export option LaTeX (with >>> bib). >> >> Sorry, I forgot, we do not enable it by default. >> >> There are instructions about how to get this in the file include_bib.py, >> which you will find in your LyX installation (e.g., at >> /usr/share/lyx/scripts/). The easiest thing to do is to open your >> preferences file and add these two lines: >> >> \format "ltxbib" "tex" "LaTeX (With Bib)" "" "" "" "document,menu=export" >> \converter "pdflatex" "ltxbib" "python -tt $$s/scripts/include_bib.py $$i >> $$o" "needaux" >> >> in the appropriate places, which should be obvious. >> >> Richard >>
Personally, I wouldn't need or wish to have exporting LaTeX with the bbl file be the default, but given that the bbl file must replace the bibtex bibliography every time one submits a paper for publication, it would indeed seem very useful to have Export > LaTeX (with bib) as a menu choice. How hard would this be? Bruce
