Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-03 Thread Michael Berger
On 07/02/2015 09:37 PM, Benedict Holland wrote: I have been working with biblatex now for over a year. It is exceptionally complex. It might actually be too complex to automate. I can't even think up a decent UI to present the hundreds of different configuration options, and there are probably

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-02 Thread Benedict Holland
I have been working with biblatex now for over a year. It is exceptionally complex. It might actually be too complex to automate. I can't even think up a decent UI to present the hundreds of different configuration options, and there are probably even more than I use. The documentation alone is sev

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-02 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/02/2015 03:35 AM, Michael Berger wrote: I hope some good guys will attend to this making the usage of biblatex in LyX as easy as that of bibtex. At least as a hack in the current code that will do this very same thing (biblatex with natbib compatibility) when biber is selected as a pro

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-02 Thread Michael Berger
On 07/01/2015 10:25 PM, PhilipPirrip wrote: On 07/01/2015 03:44 PM, Michael Berger wrote: However, I also selected under Content "all references" and ticked "Add bibliography to TOC". Yeah, but that's only for bibtex. Remember, we are only tricking LyX into thinking that it should provide us

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/01/2015 03:44 PM, Michael Berger wrote: However, I also selected under Content "all references" and ticked "Add bibliography to TOC". Yeah, but that's only for bibtex. Remember, we are only tricking LyX into thinking that it should provide us with the citation dialog. Use this instea

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Berger
On 07/01/2015 04:10 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2015-07-01 15:53 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak >: On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > Hi Philip, > thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the path to

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-07-01 15:53 GMT+02:00 Scott Kostyshak : > On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > > Hi Philip, > > thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the > path to > > my bib-file is wrong, how can I cite references from it? > > And: never ever did my s

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/01/2015 09:43 AM, Michael Berger wrote: thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the path to my bib-file is wrong, how can I cite references from it? One of the possible reasons: machines never mistake, so when you browse for your .bib file through the dialogs, L

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 03:43:55PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > Hi Philip, > thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the path to > my bib-file is wrong, how can I cite references from it? > And: never ever did my system complain capital letters nor spaces in file > names

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Berger
Hi Philip, thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the path to my bib-file is wrong, how can I cite references from it? And: never ever did my system complain capital letters nor spaces in file names in any of my numerous LyX documents (before trying biblatex). Anyway,

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
Hi Michael, There's a lot going on in your example, but what's causing problems (if everything else worked before) might be just that you haven't set the path to your .bib file in the right way. Path names in Linux are case sensitive (yours begins with /Home, which is almost always /home), and

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Berger
On 06/30/2015 10:58 PM, PhilipPirrip wrote: It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. Hallo Philip, your example file is working here as anticipated. So, one may conclude the problem with

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread Michael Berger
On 06/30/2015 06:10 PM, Johannes Böttcher wrote: On 06/30/2015 11:19 AM, Michael Berger wrote: PS: as advised under "Known problems" I did 'biber --cache' which resulted in: "No cache - you are not running the PAR: Packer executable of biber" What might be the problem here? Do you have up

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. @BOOK{monroe:1955, title = {{R}adio {O}n}, publisher = {Addison--Wesley}, year = {1955}, author = {Marilyn Monroe}, address = {Los Ange

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. @BOOK{monroe:1955, title = {{R}adio {O}n}, publisher = {Addison--Wesley}, year = {1955}, author = {Marilyn Monroe}, address = {Los Ange

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 06/30/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Dear Friends of LyX, I used bibtex in various documentswith single and sectioned bibliographies and that worked without problems. Then I decided to try using biblatex on one of these documents and found "Using biblatex with LyX" in wiki.lyx.org/Bibtex

Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread Michael Berger
Dear Friends of LyX, I used bibtex in various documentswith single and sectioned bibliographies and that worked without problems. Then I decided to try using biblatex on one of these documents and found "Using biblatex with LyX" in wiki.lyx.org/Bibtex/Biblatex. I followed this guide step by step

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread Johannes Böttcher
On 06/30/2015 11:19 AM, Michael Berger wrote: PS: as advised under "Known problems" I did 'biber --cache' which resulted in: "No cache - you are not running the PAR: Packer executable of biber" What might be the problem here? Do you have up-to-date versions of biblatex (3.0) and biber (2.1)

Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread Michael Berger
Dear Friends of LyX, I used bibtex in various documentswith single and sectioned bibliographies and that worked without problems. Then I decided to try using biblatex on one of these documents and found "Using biblatex with LyX" in wiki.lyx.org/Bibtex/Biblatex. I followed this guide step by step