stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have read that biblatex is the way of the future. Unfortunately, I >> understand >> that lyx does not currently support biblatex. >> > > Lyx supports biblatex *partially*. You can use biblatex in lyx with a few > workarounds, all detailed in the corresponding wiki page: > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex. > > In short, you have to load biblatex and the bib files manually in the > preamble, and you have to enter a command in ERT in your text to instruct > LyX to print out the list of references. You are still able to enter > references through a dialog box as you would when using bibtex. In > practical terms, using biblatex in lyx is not much different from using > bibtex, at least if you use the standard styles and citing commands. > Having full support would be great, but the current setup is more than > usable. > > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > >
Oh, thanks! One note. It seems biber is not supported at least on Fedora linux. Fedora ships texlive 2013. I can't seem to find any biber there, and from what messages I found on google, I think maybe it's not maintained? I have used biblatex using bibtex backend instead of biber.
