On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stefano and all, > > Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure how to > make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes > 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder > 2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart > > 3) Setting the Preamble with > a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex} > you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is not mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features only wotk with biber. So replace your line with: \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex} (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend clause completely, but just for clarity) > b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex} > This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric, but do not load it twice c) \addbibresource{<name of bib-file with .bib-extension>} > You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex won't find you bib file. This is actually lyx's problem, not biblatex's. The problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your file into a a pdf, lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex file to a temp directory, then it runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At that point, the relative path you had inserted in the preamble becomes meaningless since you are no longer in the original location. IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands in the preamble. > 4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... ) in a > LyX note or comment > good > 5) enter \printbibliography in ERT > good 6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and > change the bibtex > good 7) pass the option backend=biber > see comment to point 3a above > When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it. > But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no > bibliography printed > > Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6 > > Let me know if it works. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA [email protected] http://stefano.cleinias.org
