Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved. It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'. I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise my .bib database. To have it recognise

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on each citation to change it. Is the any way to do this? Try \renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{% \@ifstar

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Works great. Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote: To have it recognise it I needed to: 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex bibliography. 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former filename was

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved. It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'. I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise my .bib database. To have it recognise

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on each citation to change it. Is the any way to do this? Try \renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{% \@ifstar

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Works great. Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote: To have it recognise it I needed to: 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex bibliography. 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former filename was

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Brilliant tip Stefano! Problem is *nearly* solved. It turns out that using zotero and lyz citations get pushed using \citet command, which makes citations look like 'author (year)'. I couldn't change that using the dialogue box because lyx wouldn't recognise my .bib database. To have it recognise

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: > Now my only problem is that I'd like to change the global settings to > format all citations as (author year) rather than have to click on > each citation to change it. > > Is the any way to do this? Try \renewrobustcmd*{\citet}{% \@ifstar

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread Roey Angel
Works great. Thanks!

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-22 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Roey Angel wrote: > To have it recognise it I needed to: > 1. insert a note at the end of the document and within it insert the Bibtex > bibliography. > 2. change the name of the .bib data base to not include any dots (my former > filename

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the tip, Scott. I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error Package keyval Error: hash undefined. Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/3/21 Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com: I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error Package keyval Error: hash undefined. On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to the

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick. lyx now processes everything correctly with biber. Still my problem is the output. no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get ...make up as much as 44% of the land

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
Roey, have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the format of your citation. I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option) and change the appearance of the citation depending on its

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Hi Stefano, sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in lyx. I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefano, sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in lyx. I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. When I hover over a citation in the text it says no

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the tip, Scott. I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error Package keyval Error: hash undefined. Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/3/21 Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com: I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error Package keyval Error: hash undefined. On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to the

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick. lyx now processes everything correctly with biber. Still my problem is the output. no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get ...make up as much as 44% of the land

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
Roey, have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the format of your citation. I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option) and change the appearance of the citation depending on its

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Hi Stefano, sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in lyx. I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. When I hover over a citation in the text it says no bibliography defined and when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel angel.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Stefano, sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in lyx. I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. When I hover over a citation in the text it says no

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the tip, Scott. I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error Package keyval Error: hash undefined. Also, after I revert back to bibtex8 (by changing to backend=bibtex8 in the preamble and changing to Bibliography generator bibtex8 in Document setting) lyx

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2012/3/21 Roey Angel : > I managed to get the lyx 2.0.3 working but I'm still getting that error > Package keyval Error: hash undefined. On the Web, I've read that people who were getting that error had an outdated biblatex version installed. Please try to update biblatex to

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Vielen Dank Jürgen! That totally did the trick. lyx now processes everything correctly with biber. Still my problem is the output. no matter what style I choose, the citation in text always includes the names outside brackets. So using style=authortitle I get ...make up as much as 44% of the land

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
Roey, have you tried using the biblatex module for LyX? That module allows you to use different natbib-like biblatex commands to change the format of your citation. I normally use biblatex's authoryear style (with the natbib option) and change the appearance of the citation depending on its

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread Roey Angel
Hi Stefano, sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in lyx. I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. When I hover over a citation in the text it says "no bibliography defined" and when click on it I get the citation dialogue box but I

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-21 Thread stefano franchi
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Roey Angel wrote: > Hi Stefano, > sure I'm using the biblatex module; that's the only way to get it working in > lyx. > I also use the natbib=true options and still get that wrong output. > When I hover over a citation in the text it says

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber releases. I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?! According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the help, Jürgen. ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my document with it gives an error: Package keyval Error: hash undefined. I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu repository. I could build it from source but only if

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel [angel.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu repository. I could build it from source but only if that's what's causing the

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber releases. I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?! According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the help, Jürgen. ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my document with it gives an error: Package keyval Error: hash undefined. I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu repository. I could build it from source but only if

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel [angel.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu repository. I could build it from source but only if that's what's causing the

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Roey Angel wrote: > I'm trying to get Lyx (2.0.0) to work with biber. You should update to LyX 2.0.3. Older versions have issues with recent biber releases. > I downloaded the latest version of biber 0.9.8 and now what?! > According to the LyX wiki, I should get a biber option on the pull-down

Re: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Roey Angel
Thanks for the help, Jürgen. ok now that it's in path lyx recognises biber, but trying to process my document with it gives an error: Package keyval Error: hash undefined. I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu repository. I could build it from source but only if

RE: Getting lyx to recognise biber

2012-03-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] on behalf of Roey Angel [angel.r...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 8:48 PM >I'm using lyx 2.0.0 because that's what's available through the ubuntu >repository. >I could build it from source but only if that's what's causing the