On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Biber is under active development, actually, and well maintained. I use the version distributed with TexLive 2013, which is now frozen at 1.8 (TexLive 2013 is frozen, since the TexLive 2014 is about to come out). I don't know how Fedora packages Texlive (I'm on Archlnux), perhaps it behaves like Debian/Ubuntu and splits it into several packages? In hat case you may be missing one of the extra packages. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
