On 07/02/2015 09:37 PM, Benedict Holland wrote:
I have been working with biblatex now for over a year. It is
exceptionally complex. It might actually be too complex to automate. I
can't even think up a decent UI to present the hundreds of different
configuration options, and there are probably even more than I use.
The documentation alone is several hundred pages.
The problem is that bibliogrophy generation is very very complicated.
It doesn't sound like it should be until you think about the
dozens---possibly hundreds---of different ways of doing it. Each
journal has their own unique way. Nothing is standard. There are
regional differences between the US and the EU. There are also no good
defaults, even regionally. From a technical perspective (I thought a
lot about this), it is very challenging. It also has only 1 major
benefit and that is that biblatex handles unicode flawlessly. Apart
from that, I don't think it is that unreasonable to assume that if you
are using biblatex and biber that you are a bit more advanced. You
might not be a power user but you are also not just a button presser
either.
BTW, to the person who stated that linux handles paths incorrectly,
no. Just no. It doesn't. Windows handles paths incorrectly because
everything is capitalized thanks to really epically bad programming in
the days of Dos. Unix has always had case specific paths and this is
way it should be. It just means you, as the end user, need to be a bit
careful.
~Ben
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:13 AM, PhilipPirrip <p...@net.hr
<mailto:p...@net.hr>> wrote:
On 07/02/2015 03:35 AM, Michael Berger wrote:
I hope some good guys will attend to this making the usage of
biblatex
in LyX as easy as that of bibtex.
At least as a hack in the current code that will do this very same
thing (biblatex with natbib compatibility) when biber is selected
as a processor. Wishful thinking... :)
Hi Benedict,
I am definitely not a power user neither am I a "button presser"
(fantastic term!).
I find your comment very realistic and fair in every single point, thanks.
First, I would like to express my thanks to every single person who
commented on resolving my problems - every single line was helpful, no
matter whether or not it hit the point. To ordinary users *every*
comment contributes towards the understanding of his/her issue.
re paths
In LyX I now and then used spaces in file names and neither was case
sensitivity a problem. My problem as per Subject was that one element in
the path was simply missing - foolish enough, but that was the culprit. :-D
Yet, I appreciate all the comments re case sensitivity and spaces in LyX
- good to be reminded.
re bibtex vs biblatex
I am happy to have taken the challenge (never ever dreamed of what was
waiting for me) to compare both on the same document staffed with all
that linguistic peculiarities. Both version are finally working as
anticipated.
Within my reach I almost found nothing that could not have been achieved
with bibtex (I am not saying biblatex has no advantage over biblatex!).
But as utilization of biblatex in LyX currently is concerned, it is
everything but easy - just something for daring people and for all who
are eager to learn. Just imagine: "... we have to fool LyX"!
Cheers to the community and thanks again!
Michael
