On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Benedict Holland < benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is a fantastic point. Also I just found this. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex > > I don't know enough about Lyx to start programing stuff for it yet but it > seems like pushing biber and biblatex as the default is about 15 years > overdue. If someone who knows far more about the Lyx codebase can ping me > or if this would be a great feature request, I would be willing to spend > some time on this. I ran into very similar problem with a name much like > Jürgen > and I lost a few days trying to figure it out. > > Hi Benedict, I think most developers (of which I am not one) agree that full biblatex support would be desirable. However, from what I understand, adding such support is not an entirely trivial task, partly because biblatex/biber interact with latex in a very different way from bibtex. That does not mean you are not welcome to give it a try. In fact, you strongly encouraged to do so! There were some discussions of this topic on the lyx-devel list a few months ago. You may want to search for those threads to get started. I also tend to believe that one of the reasons why biblatex support does not have a very high priority on the developers' agenda is that the current workaround (described in the wiki page you referred to) is good enough for a lot of users. It has certainly been good enough for me for a number of years. I switched to biblatex/biber to get full unicode support and avoid the kind of time-consuming issues discussed in this thread. Once you get used to loading biblatex in the preamble (and adding a fake bibtex inset at the end) it is smooth sailing. If you tend to work with the same bib files all the time (as I do), you may even create a lyx template with the proper preamble and bibtex inset and you are done. 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 stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org