On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Ok, if this is not needed, and only natbib->biblatex conversion needs to be
provided, then it shouldn't be impossible.
> 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.
>
>
yes, but to make this 100% user configurable looks like a major undertaking.
Just to begin with -- you would need to add the following to
syntax.default for biblatex and I'm not even sure that file has a way of
handling the lines I commented below (the ones that go on indefinitely):
% biblatex supports some natbib and jurabib commands and additionally:
\cite[][]{}
\cite*[][]{}
\Cite[][]{}
\citetitle[][]{}
\citetitle*[][]{}
\citeauthor[][]{}
\Citeauthor[][]{}
\citeyear[][]{}
\citeurl[][]{}
\Footcite[][]{}
\footfullcite[][]{}
\volcite[]{}[]{}
\Volcite[]{}[]{}
\pvolcite[]{}[]{}
\Pvolcite[]{}[]{}
\fvolcite[]{}[]{}
\Fvolcite[]{}[]{}
\tvolcite[]{}[]{}
\Tvolcite[]{}[]{}
\avolcite[]{}[]{}
\Avolcite[]{}[]{}
\notecite[]{}[]{}
\Notecite[]{}[]{}
\pnotecite[]{}[]{}
\Pnotecite[]{}[]{}
\fnotecite[]{}[]{}
\Fnotecite[]{}[]{}
\citename[][]{}[]{}
\citelist[][]{}[]{}
\citefield[][]{}[]{}
\textcite[][]{}
\Textcite[][]{}
\parencite[][]{}
\parencite*[][]{}
\Parencite[][]{}
\autocite[][]{}
\autocite*[][]{}
\Autocite[][]{}
\Autocite*[][]{}
\supercite{}
\cites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\Cites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\parencites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\Parencites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\footcites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\Footcites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\autocites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\Autocites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\supercites()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}()()[][]{}%
Arguments go on indefinitely!
\nocite{}
\printbibliography[]
\RN{}
\Rn{}
\citereset
\citereset*
\mancite
\pno
\ppno
\nopp
\psq
\psqq
\bibellipsis
\hyphenate
\hyphen
\nbhyphen
\noligature
\mknumalph{}
\mkbibacro{}
\autocap{}
> Richard
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Johannes Wilm
http://www.johanneswilm.org
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