Hi,
After finding myself spending more and more time with tweaking and
customizing bibliography handling I am considering switching to
biblatex.
According to the wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex) and a
thread from last December (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg60714.html
) this seems to be not overly difficult -- it can't be more
complicated than my current bibtex, multibib, and child-/master mode
tweaks. Before really digging into all this, I am, however, curious
about other users' experience with biblatex:
1) Do you have to change your .bib-files? I remember that this was an
issue when I first read about biblatex, but did not find a comment or
hint into this direction in the documentation of the current version.
2) Does it work well with hyperref (including backref support and so
on)? The documentation states so -- but with respect to hyperref many
oddities arise in practice. (I had, for instance, all my requirements
fulfilled with bibunits and some tweaks when I finally figured out
that with bibunits reference no longer become hyperlinks - a show
stopper.)
3) Do I really have to use the natbib options? I know, everybody
recommends natbib, but I prefer the simple alpha style.
4) Why is it the case that the path to the bib-files has to be either
absolute or the bib-file has to be in texmf? I really would like to
avoid both.
5) Even though I never heard any complaints about the 0.7 version of
biblatex, it is still considered as "beta". Did you experience any
problems while using it?
Thanks a lot!
Daniel
- Experiences with biblatex? Daniel Lohmann
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