https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584063
Seems fedora is not shipping biber, it is still an open bug On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:07 AM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > 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 >
