On 04/24/2011 08:30 PM, Johannes Wilm wrote:
Yes, I wrote a small patch earlier. I thought I would try to refine it
and develop it more once 2.0 is out the door. The most difficult piece
it seems to me would be to provide for a failure free switch back and
forth from and to Biblatex.
I doubt there can be one of those, not in general. BibLaTeX can in
principle provide more cite commands than Natbib does, so the
BibLaTeX-->Natbib conversion can't be undone without lots of special
handling we don't really want to do. Some sort of moderately sensible
conversion is the all there really needs to be---and a warning, when
changing this setting, that what's about to be done can't be undone.
Yes, if that is possible at all. The Lyx-file would have to be
fundamentally different for biblatex files (all bibliography databases
go into the header + the bibtex executable may soon no longer work
with it).
I haven't looked at this in detail, but it ought to be possible to tell
LyX to do different things in different cases. I imagine some
layout-like thing that contains all the information about what cite
commands there are, what they look like, etc. It can also contain other
information about what bibliography-related commands need to be issued,
and where they should be put. There won't be that many options.
Richard
