Re: Author-year in Lyx

[KIM Musak]

Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text

I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file. The
reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I could
cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file, and nicely
shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click preview, the PDF
only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no bibliography printed.
Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or probably with Lyx 2.0.6?

--, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---

Regards,

Kamarul


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi stef...@tamu.edu wrote:




 On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak kim2u4...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Stefano and all,

 Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure how to
 make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder

 2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart



 3) Setting the Preamble with
 a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


 you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is not
 mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features only wotk
 with biber. So replace your line with:

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

 (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend clause
 completely, but just for clarity)

 b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


 This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
 want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric, but
 do not load it twice

 Stefano, yes, I used only
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

c) \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}


 You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex won't
 find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not biblatex's. The
 problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your file into a a pdf,
 lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a temp directory, then it
 runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At that point, the relative path
 you had inserted in the preamble becomes meaningless since you are no
 longer in the original location.
 IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands in
 the preamble.


Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only




 4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... ) in a
 LyX note or comment

 good


I can confirmed that I did this



 5) enter \printbibliography in ERT

 good


I can confirm that i did this


 6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
 change the bibtex

 good


I can confirm I did this


 7) pass the option backend=biber

 see comment to point 3a above


I did add this and without this



 When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
 But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
 bibliography printed

 Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6




 Let me know if it works.

 Cheers,
 Stefano
 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

 stef...@tamu.edu
 http://stefano.cleinias.org

Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

 Thanks, Stefano. 

Here again what I followed up or tried:

1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
I guess the /.lyx/layouts/  is meant ?
 or is it documentsmoduleBiblatex-citation-styles  
 I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box
 or both, which I tried ??
 2) toolsreconfigure
  restart lyx
 3) documentsSettingsBibliography
  citation style: standard
  Processor: biber
 3) preamble
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}
  in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}
  tried also  
   \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

 4) InsertList/TOCBibTeX Bibliography...
  in my case PBRef
  style: plain
  and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)
 5)  \printbibliography in ERT 
inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note
 6) ToolsSettingsOutputLaTeX
 processor: biber

 I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says
Running: biber PB-Biber
INFO - This is Biber 1.6
INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'
INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'
INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 
'/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0
ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1
support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber PB-Biber' finished with 
exit code 2

However, the PBRef.bib is there:
 so you can make up your own command by typing the following
 at a prompt, to get the complete path of file  myfilename.bib
 
 $ls $PWD/myfilename.bib
Dolphin tells me:
/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal
and your proposal:
we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib
bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung 
(no admission)
I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output

 
 Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?
 If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it
 correctly. If you are not getting the References section at the end,
 however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography
 command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl
 file.
 
 Can you confirm that:
 
 1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file
yes, I do
 2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your
 document 
yes, I did
 3. You do not see a corresponding  References or Works
 cited section with your full references at the end of your pdf file
No, I don't

I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)
I tried with the normal book style,
but get an error 
Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.
(paragraph style  `Publishers' was not found
The same with other book styles except Koma

I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except 

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
%could also be
% \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

but still no Bibliography output in the pdf
although the references are cited in the pdf output

I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no 
Bibliography output.

I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either. 
May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite short 
and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.

Thanks for all the help for and patience with me 


Wolfgang
% This file was created with JabRef 2.7b.
% Encoding: ISO8859_1

@ARTICLE{Hennessey1991,
  author = {Hennessey, T. L. and Field, C. B.},
  title = {Circadian rhythms in photosynthesis},
  journal = {Plant Physiol},
  year = {1991},
  volume = {96},
  pages = {831--836},
  owner = {wolfgang},
  timestamp = {2012.02.25}
}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_publisher:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_author:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_journal:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_keywords:}



PB-BiberXX.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 09:34:17 KIM Musak wrote:

Just saw this; its the same issue I have posted just now under
Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

Wolfgang

 Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
 1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
 2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text
 
 I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file.
 The reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I
 could cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file,
 and nicely shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click
 preview, the PDF only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no
 bibliography printed. Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or
 probably with Lyx 2.0.6?
 
 --, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---
 
 Regards,
 
 Kamarul
 
 On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi stef...@tamu.edu 
wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak kim2u4...@gmail.com 
wrote:
  Dear Stefano and all,
  
  Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure
  how to make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
  http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
  1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
  
  2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart
  
  3) Setting the Preamble with
  a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
  
  you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is
  not mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features
  only wotk with biber. So replace your line with:
  
  \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
  
  (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend
  clause completely, but just for clarity)
  
  b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
  
  This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
  want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric,
  but do not load it twice
  
  Stefano, yes, I used only
 
  \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
 
 c) \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}
 
  You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex
  won't find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not
  biblatex's. The problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your
  file into a a pdf, lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a
  temp directory, then it runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At
  that point, the relative path you had inserted in the preamble
  becomes meaningless since you are no longer in the original location.
  IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands
  in the preamble.
 
 Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only
 
  4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... )
  in a LyX note or comment
  
  good
 
 I can confirmed that I did this
 
  5) enter \printbibliography in ERT
  
  good
 
 I can confirm that i did this
 
  6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
  
  change the bibtex
  
  good
 
 I can confirm I did this
 
  7) pass the option backend=biber
  
  see comment to point 3a above
 
 I did add this and without this
 
  When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
  But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
  bibliography printed
  
  Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6
  
  Let me know if it works.
  
  Cheers,
  Stefano
  --
  __
  Stefano Franchi
  Associate Research Professor
  Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
  Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
  College Station, Texas, USA
  
  stef...@tamu.edu
  http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

Wolfgang,

your file had an error in the preamble. You had

\addbibresource{/home/stefano/Desktop/PBRef.bib}


but the file you enclosed is called PBReffXX.bib


Once I fixed the filename to PBRefXX.bib the file compiled fine, and the
references and bibliography appeared in the pdf output (I also had to
change the directory, of course).


Stefano


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

   Thanks, Stefano.



 Here again what I followed up or tried:



 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder

 I guess the /.lyx/layouts/ is meant ?

 or is it documentsmoduleBiblatex-citation-styles

 I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box

 or both, which I tried ??

 2) toolsreconfigure

 restart lyx

 3) documentsSettingsBibliography

 citation style: standard

 Processor: biber

 3) preamble

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

 \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}

 in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}

 tried also

 \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}



 4) InsertList/TOCBibTeX Bibliography...

 in my case PBRef

 style: plain

 and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)

 5) \printbibliography in ERT

 inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note

 6) ToolsSettingsOutputLaTeX

 processor: biber



 I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says

 Running: biber PB-Biber

 INFO - This is Biber 1.6

 INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'

 INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'

 INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0

 INFO - Processing section 0

 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file
 '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0

 ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!

 INFO - ERRORS: 1

 support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber PB-Biber' finished with
 exit code 2



 However, the PBRef.bib is there:

  so you can make up your own command by typing the following

  at a prompt, to get the complete path of file myfilename.bib

 

  $ls $PWD/myfilename.bib

 Dolphin tells me:

 /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal

 and your proposal:

 we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib

 bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung

 (no admission)

 I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output



 

  Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?

  If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it

  correctly. If you are not getting the References section at the end,

  however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography

  command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl

  file.

 

  Can you confirm that:

 

  1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file

 yes, I do

  2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your

  document

 yes, I did

  3. You do not see a corresponding References or Works

  cited section with your full references at the end of your pdf file

 No, I don't



 I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)

 I tried with the normal book style,

 but get an error

 Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.

 (paragraph style `Publishers' was not found

 The same with other book styles except Koma



 I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except



 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

 %could also be

 % \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

 \addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}



 but still no Bibliography output in the pdf

 although the references are cited in the pdf output



 I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no
 Bibliography output.



 I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either.

 May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite
 short and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.



 Thanks for all the help for and patience with me





 Wolfgang




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the 
versions of biber and biblatex.
According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are
Biber version 1.8
Biblatex version 2.8
If I check via synaptic (debian)
I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber
and 1.7-1 for biblatex.

Since I have installed texlive 2013
I searched for biber and found it to be in 
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/

and biblatex in
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/

Two questions:

How can I find out the version of these?
How can I find out, that they are used by lyx

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

  On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:



 I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the
 versions of biber and biblatex.

 According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are

 Biber version 1.8

 Biblatex version 2.8

 If I check via synaptic (debian)

 I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber

 and 1.7-1 for biblatex.




Thos are very old version. I would not recommend using biblatex 2


 Since I have installed texlive 2013

 I searched for biber and found it to be in

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/





 and biblatex in

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/



 Two questions:



 How can I find out the version of these?


for biber type
biber --version
at a prompt

for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex is
loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

How can I find out, that they are used by lyx


If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
(recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you saw
with biber --version and which is located in the output of which biber.
If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file, using the F2
shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set up KDE. I never
got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it from the command line.

Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 15:54:44 stefano franchi wrote:
 Wolfgang, Kamarul,
 
 my guess is that you have the same problem. Namely, biber cannot find
 the bib file. Or perhaps biber is not launched at all.
 
 Try looking at the latex log (DocumentLaTeX log), and check out both
 the latex log proper and the bibtex log (the two choices in  the
 dropdown menu). You should get an idea of what is going wrong. If biber
 cannot find the file, you should see something like the following in
 the bibtex log:
 
 [181] Biber.pm:3190 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '[YOUR BIB
 FILENAME HERE]' for section 0
 [252] Utils.pm:185 ERROR - Cannot find '[YOUR BIB FILENAME HERE]'!
 [253] Biber.pm:109 INFO - ERRORS: 1
 
 To sort out if there is something wrong with your installation, try out
 the enclosed files:
 1. first, copy the lisp.bb file to /tmp (that is the tmp directory
 directly under root, not in your home folder. It is generally writable
 on linux systems).
 2. then try typesetting the lyx file from within lyx
 3. If your result is identical to the pdf file I am enclosing we'll know
 your installation is all right and we can focus on what is wrong with
 your lyx files
 
Doing 1 and 2 gives me in the pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (808387 ), followed by
the same reference in traditional author-year-format (808387 ).

compared to your pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (1978), followed by the
same reference in traditional author-year-format (McCarthy, 1978).
References
McCarthy, John (1978). “History of LISP”. In: SIGPLAN Not. 13.8, pp. 217–
223. issn: 0362-1340. doi: http : / / doi . acm . org / 10 . 1145 / 960118 
.
808387.

That means, my installation is not working properly.
Perhaps what I mentioned in my EMail Today 16:10:42?
(old versions of biber and biblatex)

So I should first find out which versions are in Texlive2013 (see my EMail 
Today 16:10:42

How to?

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:
   On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  
  
  Two questions:
  
  
  
  How can I find out the version of these?
 
 for biber type
 biber --version

it is 1.6


 at a prompt
 
 for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex
 is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

 biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6

 
 How can I find out, that they are used by lyx
 
 
 If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
 depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
 you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
 (recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you
 saw with biber --version and which is located in the output of which
 biber. If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file,
 using the F2 shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set
 up KDE. I never got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it
 from the command line.
so do I


Thanks, Stefano, will try later.

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

  On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:

   On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  for biber type

  biber --version



 it is 1.6


  for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex

  is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version



 biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6


You're all right then---biblatex 2.6 wants biber 1.6, so everything is fine
on that front.

I still think you may have path-related  issues in the preamble.

Do check the capitalization of your home directory (WE vs we) as per my
previous message.


Cheers,

S.
-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

two suggested features

[Baron Peters]

Dear LYX developers,

I love the LYX software, but there are just a few minor problems that I've not 
been able to resolve.  

1)  I'm writing a book and I would like to place example calculations in shaded 
boxes which are clearly delineated from the main text.  Some example 
calculations are quite long so page breaks are needed.  However, it seems that 
page breaks are only allowed with the Box (simple frame, page breaks) 
options.  It would be great if shaded boxes could also include page breaks.  

2)  I have tried to convince my students and colleagues to switch from MS Word 
to LYX.  The one troublesome point for most of them is that certain key style 
files are not available for LYX.  A website that used to supply REVTEX4.1 is no 
longer working.  Many journals supply LATEX templates, and for someone who 
knows both LYX and LATEX well, it should be possible to create equivalent LYX 
templates.  

These features would make wonderful additions to the 2.1 release.  The second 
addition in particular would immediately boost your user base.  

Sincerely,
Baron Peters

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[KIM Musak]

Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text

I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file. The
reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I could
cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file, and nicely
shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click preview, the PDF
only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no bibliography printed.
Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or probably with Lyx 2.0.6?

--, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---

Regards,

Kamarul


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi stef...@tamu.edu wrote:




 On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak kim2u4...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Stefano and all,

 Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure how to
 make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder

 2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart



 3) Setting the Preamble with
 a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


 you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is not
 mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features only wotk
 with biber. So replace your line with:

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

 (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend clause
 completely, but just for clarity)

 b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


 This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
 want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric, but
 do not load it twice

 Stefano, yes, I used only
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

c) \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}


 You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex won't
 find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not biblatex's. The
 problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your file into a a pdf,
 lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a temp directory, then it
 runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At that point, the relative path
 you had inserted in the preamble becomes meaningless since you are no
 longer in the original location.
 IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands in
 the preamble.


Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only




 4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... ) in a
 LyX note or comment

 good


I can confirmed that I did this



 5) enter \printbibliography in ERT

 good


I can confirm that i did this


 6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
 change the bibtex

 good


I can confirm I did this


 7) pass the option backend=biber

 see comment to point 3a above


I did add this and without this



 When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
 But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
 bibliography printed

 Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6




 Let me know if it works.

 Cheers,
 Stefano
 --
 __
 Stefano Franchi
 Associate Research Professor
 Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
 Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
 College Station, Texas, USA

 stef...@tamu.edu
 http://stefano.cleinias.org

Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

 Thanks, Stefano. 

Here again what I followed up or tried:

1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
I guess the /.lyx/layouts/  is meant ?
 or is it documentsmoduleBiblatex-citation-styles  
 I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box
 or both, which I tried ??
 2) toolsreconfigure
  restart lyx
 3) documentsSettingsBibliography
  citation style: standard
  Processor: biber
 3) preamble
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}
  in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}
  tried also  
   \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

 4) InsertList/TOCBibTeX Bibliography...
  in my case PBRef
  style: plain
  and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)
 5)  \printbibliography in ERT 
inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note
 6) ToolsSettingsOutputLaTeX
 processor: biber

 I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says
Running: biber PB-Biber
INFO - This is Biber 1.6
INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'
INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'
INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 
'/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0
ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1
support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber PB-Biber' finished with 
exit code 2

However, the PBRef.bib is there:
 so you can make up your own command by typing the following
 at a prompt, to get the complete path of file  myfilename.bib
 
 $ls $PWD/myfilename.bib
Dolphin tells me:
/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal
and your proposal:
we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib
bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung 
(no admission)
I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output

 
 Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?
 If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it
 correctly. If you are not getting the References section at the end,
 however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography
 command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl
 file.
 
 Can you confirm that:
 
 1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file
yes, I do
 2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your
 document 
yes, I did
 3. You do not see a corresponding  References or Works
 cited section with your full references at the end of your pdf file
No, I don't

I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)
I tried with the normal book style,
but get an error 
Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.
(paragraph style  `Publishers' was not found
The same with other book styles except Koma

I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except 

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
%could also be
% \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

but still no Bibliography output in the pdf
although the references are cited in the pdf output

I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no 
Bibliography output.

I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either. 
May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite short 
and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.

Thanks for all the help for and patience with me 


Wolfgang
% This file was created with JabRef 2.7b.
% Encoding: ISO8859_1

@ARTICLE{Hennessey1991,
  author = {Hennessey, T. L. and Field, C. B.},
  title = {Circadian rhythms in photosynthesis},
  journal = {Plant Physiol},
  year = {1991},
  volume = {96},
  pages = {831--836},
  owner = {wolfgang},
  timestamp = {2012.02.25}
}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_publisher:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_author:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_journal:}

@comment{jabref-meta: selector_keywords:}



PB-BiberXX.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 09:34:17 KIM Musak wrote:

Just saw this; its the same issue I have posted just now under
Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

Wolfgang

 Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
 1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
 2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text
 
 I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file.
 The reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I
 could cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file,
 and nicely shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click
 preview, the PDF only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no
 bibliography printed. Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or
 probably with Lyx 2.0.6?
 
 --, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---
 
 Regards,
 
 Kamarul
 
 On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi stef...@tamu.edu 
wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak kim2u4...@gmail.com 
wrote:
  Dear Stefano and all,
  
  Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure
  how to make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
  http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
  1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
  
  2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart
  
  3) Setting the Preamble with
  a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
  
  you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is
  not mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features
  only wotk with biber. So replace your line with:
  
  \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
  
  (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend
  clause completely, but just for clarity)
  
  b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
  
  This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
  want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric,
  but do not load it twice
  
  Stefano, yes, I used only
 
  \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
 
 c) \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}
 
  You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex
  won't find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not
  biblatex's. The problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your
  file into a a pdf, lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a
  temp directory, then it runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At
  that point, the relative path you had inserted in the preamble
  becomes meaningless since you are no longer in the original location.
  IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands
  in the preamble.
 
 Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only
 
  4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... )
  in a LyX note or comment
  
  good
 
 I can confirmed that I did this
 
  5) enter \printbibliography in ERT
  
  good
 
 I can confirm that i did this
 
  6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
  
  change the bibtex
  
  good
 
 I can confirm I did this
 
  7) pass the option backend=biber
  
  see comment to point 3a above
 
 I did add this and without this
 
  When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
  But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
  bibliography printed
  
  Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6
  
  Let me know if it works.
  
  Cheers,
  Stefano
  --
  __
  Stefano Franchi
  Associate Research Professor
  Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
  Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
  College Station, Texas, USA
  
  stef...@tamu.edu
  http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

Wolfgang,

your file had an error in the preamble. You had

\addbibresource{/home/stefano/Desktop/PBRef.bib}


but the file you enclosed is called PBReffXX.bib


Once I fixed the filename to PBRefXX.bib the file compiled fine, and the
references and bibliography appeared in the pdf output (I also had to
change the directory, of course).


Stefano


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

   Thanks, Stefano.



 Here again what I followed up or tried:



 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder

 I guess the /.lyx/layouts/ is meant ?

 or is it documentsmoduleBiblatex-citation-styles

 I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box

 or both, which I tried ??

 2) toolsreconfigure

 restart lyx

 3) documentsSettingsBibliography

 citation style: standard

 Processor: biber

 3) preamble

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

 \addbibresource{name of bib-file with .bib-extension}

 in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}

 tried also

 \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}



 4) InsertList/TOCBibTeX Bibliography...

 in my case PBRef

 style: plain

 and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)

 5) \printbibliography in ERT

 inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note

 6) ToolsSettingsOutputLaTeX

 processor: biber



 I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says

 Running: biber PB-Biber

 INFO - This is Biber 1.6

 INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'

 INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'

 INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0

 INFO - Processing section 0

 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file
 '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0

 ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!

 INFO - ERRORS: 1

 support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber PB-Biber' finished with
 exit code 2



 However, the PBRef.bib is there:

  so you can make up your own command by typing the following

  at a prompt, to get the complete path of file myfilename.bib

 

  $ls $PWD/myfilename.bib

 Dolphin tells me:

 /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal

 and your proposal:

 we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib

 bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung

 (no admission)

 I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output



 

  Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?

  If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it

  correctly. If you are not getting the References section at the end,

  however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography

  command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl

  file.

 

  Can you confirm that:

 

  1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file

 yes, I do

  2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your

  document

 yes, I did

  3. You do not see a corresponding References or Works

  cited section with your full references at the end of your pdf file

 No, I don't



 I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)

 I tried with the normal book style,

 but get an error

 Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.

 (paragraph style `Publishers' was not found

 The same with other book styles except Koma



 I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except



 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

 %could also be

 % \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}

 \addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}



 but still no Bibliography output in the pdf

 although the references are cited in the pdf output



 I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no
 Bibliography output.



 I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either.

 May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite
 short and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.



 Thanks for all the help for and patience with me





 Wolfgang




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the 
versions of biber and biblatex.
According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are
Biber version 1.8
Biblatex version 2.8
If I check via synaptic (debian)
I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber
and 1.7-1 for biblatex.

Since I have installed texlive 2013
I searched for biber and found it to be in 
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/

and biblatex in
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/

Two questions:

How can I find out the version of these?
How can I find out, that they are used by lyx

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

  On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:



 I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the
 versions of biber and biblatex.

 According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are

 Biber version 1.8

 Biblatex version 2.8

 If I check via synaptic (debian)

 I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber

 and 1.7-1 for biblatex.




Thos are very old version. I would not recommend using biblatex 2


 Since I have installed texlive 2013

 I searched for biber and found it to be in

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/





 and biblatex in

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/

 /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/



 Two questions:



 How can I find out the version of these?


for biber type
biber --version
at a prompt

for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex is
loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

How can I find out, that they are used by lyx


If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
(recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you saw
with biber --version and which is located in the output of which biber.
If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file, using the F2
shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set up KDE. I never
got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it from the command line.

Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 15:54:44 stefano franchi wrote:
 Wolfgang, Kamarul,
 
 my guess is that you have the same problem. Namely, biber cannot find
 the bib file. Or perhaps biber is not launched at all.
 
 Try looking at the latex log (DocumentLaTeX log), and check out both
 the latex log proper and the bibtex log (the two choices in  the
 dropdown menu). You should get an idea of what is going wrong. If biber
 cannot find the file, you should see something like the following in
 the bibtex log:
 
 [181] Biber.pm:3190 INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '[YOUR BIB
 FILENAME HERE]' for section 0
 [252] Utils.pm:185 ERROR - Cannot find '[YOUR BIB FILENAME HERE]'!
 [253] Biber.pm:109 INFO - ERRORS: 1
 
 To sort out if there is something wrong with your installation, try out
 the enclosed files:
 1. first, copy the lisp.bb file to /tmp (that is the tmp directory
 directly under root, not in your home folder. It is generally writable
 on linux systems).
 2. then try typesetting the lyx file from within lyx
 3. If your result is identical to the pdf file I am enclosing we'll know
 your installation is all right and we can focus on what is wrong with
 your lyx files
 
Doing 1 and 2 gives me in the pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (808387 ), followed by
the same reference in traditional author-year-format (808387 ).

compared to your pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (1978), followed by the
same reference in traditional author-year-format (McCarthy, 1978).
References
McCarthy, John (1978). “History of LISP”. In: SIGPLAN Not. 13.8, pp. 217–
223. issn: 0362-1340. doi: http : / / doi . acm . org / 10 . 1145 / 960118 
.
808387.

That means, my installation is not working properly.
Perhaps what I mentioned in my EMail Today 16:10:42?
(old versions of biber and biblatex)

So I should first find out which versions are in Texlive2013 (see my EMail 
Today 16:10:42

How to?

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:
   On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  
  
  Two questions:
  
  
  
  How can I find out the version of these?
 
 for biber type
 biber --version

it is 1.6


 at a prompt
 
 for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex
 is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

 biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6

 
 How can I find out, that they are used by lyx
 
 
 If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
 depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
 you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
 (recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you
 saw with biber --version and which is located in the output of which
 biber. If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file,
 using the F2 shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set
 up KDE. I never got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it
 from the command line.
so do I


Thanks, Stefano, will try later.

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann 
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de wrote:

  On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:

   On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
  for biber type

  biber --version



 it is 1.6


  for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex

  is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version



 biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6


You're all right then---biblatex 2.6 wants biber 1.6, so everything is fine
on that front.

I still think you may have path-related  issues in the preamble.

Do check the capitalization of your home directory (WE vs we) as per my
previous message.


Cheers,

S.
-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

two suggested features

[Baron Peters]

Dear LYX developers,

I love the LYX software, but there are just a few minor problems that I've not 
been able to resolve.  

1)  I'm writing a book and I would like to place example calculations in shaded 
boxes which are clearly delineated from the main text.  Some example 
calculations are quite long so page breaks are needed.  However, it seems that 
page breaks are only allowed with the Box (simple frame, page breaks) 
options.  It would be great if shaded boxes could also include page breaks.  

2)  I have tried to convince my students and colleagues to switch from MS Word 
to LYX.  The one troublesome point for most of them is that certain key style 
files are not available for LYX.  A website that used to supply REVTEX4.1 is no 
longer working.  Many journals supply LATEX templates, and for someone who 
knows both LYX and LATEX well, it should be possible to create equivalent LYX 
templates.  

These features would make wonderful additions to the 2.1 release.  The second 
addition in particular would immediately boost your user base.  

Sincerely,
Baron Peters

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[KIM Musak]

Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text

I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file. The
reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I could
cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file, and nicely
shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click preview, the PDF
only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no bibliography printed.
Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or probably with Lyx 2.0.6?

--, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---

Regards,

Kamarul


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi  wrote:

>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak  wrote:
>
>> Dear Stefano and all,
>>
>> Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure how to
>> make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
>> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
>> 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
>>
> 2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart
>>
>
>
>> 3) Setting the Preamble with
>> a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
>>
>
> you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is not
> mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features only wotk
> with biber. So replace your line with:
>
> \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
>
> (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend clause
> completely, but just for clarity)
>
>> b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
>>
>
> This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
> want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric, but
> do not load it twice
>
> Stefano, yes, I used only
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}

c) \addbibresource{}
>>
>
> You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex won't
> find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not biblatex's. The
> problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your file into a a pdf,
> lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a temp directory, then it
> runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At that point, the relative path
> you had inserted in the preamble becomes meaningless since you are no
> longer in the original location.
> IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands in
> the preamble.
>

Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only

>
>
>
>> 4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... ) in a
>> LyX note or comment
>>
> good
>

I can confirmed that I did this

>
>
>> 5) enter \printbibliography in ERT
>>
> good
>

I can confirm that i did this

>
> 6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
>> change the bibtex
>>
> good
>

I can confirm I did this

>
> 7) pass the option backend=biber
>>
> see comment to point 3a above
>

I did add this and without this

>
>
>> When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
>> But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
>> bibliography printed
>>
>> Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6
>>
>>
>
>
> Let me know if it works.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefano
> --
> __
> Stefano Franchi
> Associate Research Professor
> Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
> Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
> College Station, Texas, USA
>
> stef...@tamu.edu
> http://stefano.cleinias.org
>

Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

 Thanks, Stefano. 

Here again what I followed up or tried:

1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
I guess the /.lyx/layouts/  is meant ?
 or is it documents>module>Biblatex-citation-styles  
 I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box
 or both, which I tried ??
 2) tools>reconfigure
  restart lyx
 3) documents>Settings>Bibliography
  citation style: standard
  Processor: biber
 3) preamble>
 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
 \addbibresource{}
  in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}
  tried also  
   \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

 4) Insert>List/TOC>BibTeX Bibliography...
  in my case PBRef
  style: plain
  and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)
 5)  \printbibliography in ERT 
inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note
 6) Tools>Settings>Output>LaTeX
 processor: biber

 I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says
Running: biber "PB-Biber"
INFO - This is Biber 1.6
INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'
INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'
INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0
INFO - Processing section 0
INFO - Looking for bibtex format file 
'/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0
ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!
INFO - ERRORS: 1
support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber "PB-Biber"' finished with 
exit code 2

However, the PBRef.bib is there:
> so you can make up your own command by typing the following
> at a prompt, to get the complete path of file  "myfilename.bib"
> 
> $>ls $PWD/myfilename.bib
Dolphin tells me:
/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal
and your proposal:
we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib
bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung 
(no admission)
I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output

> 
> Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?
> If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it
> correctly. If you are not getting the "References" section at the end,
> however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography
> command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl
> file.
> 
> Can you confirm that:
> 
> 1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file
yes, I do
> 2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your
> document 
yes, I did
> 3. You do not see a corresponding  "References" or "Works
> cited" section with your full references at the end of your pdf file
No, I don't

I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)
I tried with the normal book style,
but get an error 
Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.
(paragraph style  `Publishers' was not found
The same with other book styles except Koma

I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except 

 \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
%could also be
% \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}

but still no Bibliography output in the pdf
although the references are cited in the pdf output

I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no 
Bibliography output.

I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either. 
May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite short 
and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.

Thanks for all the help for and patience with me 


Wolfgang
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  author = {Hennessey, T. L. and Field, C. B.},
  title = {Circadian rhythms in photosynthesis},
  journal = {Plant Physiol},
  year = {1991},
  volume = {96},
  pages = {831--836},
  owner = {wolfgang},
  timestamp = {2012.02.25}
}

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PB-BiberXX.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 09:34:17 KIM Musak wrote:

Just saw this; its the same issue I have posted just now under
Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

Wolfgang

> Dear Stefano, unfortunately I still can't get lyx to
> 1) show Author-Year , instead the bibtexkey shown
> 2) no bibliography listed at the end of the text
> 
> I am pretty sure the problem happens during generation of the PDF file.
> The reasons being, I could see all the reference in my Lyx document, I
> could cite the selected reference. They are nicely shown in lyx file,
> and nicely shown as Author-Year.  The only problem is when I click
> preview, the PDF only shows the citation but only in bibtexkey and no
> bibliography printed. Anything to do with the module? or Windows 8? or
> probably with Lyx 2.0.6?
> 
> --, what have I done wrong? still clueless ---
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kamarul
> 
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Stefano Franchi  
wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:49 AM, KIM Musak  
wrote:
> >> Dear Stefano and all,
> >> 
> >> Coming back to setting Lyx to work with biblatex, I am not so sure
> >> how to make it works in my Lyx. I have tried the steps listed at
> >> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex , which includes
> >> 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
> > 
> > 2) Reconfigure Lyx - then restart
> > 
> >> 3) Setting the Preamble with
> >> a) \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
> > 
> > you should really use biber instead of bibtex with bibblatex. It is
> > not mandatory but I strongly recommend it. Many biblatex features
> > only wotk with biber. So replace your line with:
> > 
> > \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
> > 
> > (actually biber is the default, so you clould eliminate the backend
> > clause completely, but just for clarity)
> > 
> >> b) \usepackage[style=numeric,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}
> > 
> > This is wrong. You should only load biblatex once, with the style you
> > want. So either load it with style=authoryear, or with style=numeric,
> > but do not load it twice
> > 
> > Stefano, yes, I used only
> 
>  \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
> 
> c) \addbibresource{}
> 
> > You should have the complete path from root here, otherwise biblatex
> > won't find you bib file. This is actually  lyx's problem, not
> > biblatex's. The problem is that when you instruct lix to typeset your
> > file into a a pdf, lyx first copies your lyx-converted tex  file to a
> > temp directory, then it runs (pdf)latex and biber/bibtex on it. At
> > that point, the relative path you had inserted in the preamble
> > becomes meaningless since you are no longer in the original location.
> > IN SHORT: always use absolute paths in your \addbibresource commands
> > in the preamble.
> 
> Stefano, i did use the complete the path and also the file name only
> 
> >> 4) insert the BibTeX inset (Insert→List/TOC→BibTeX Bibliography... )
> >> in a LyX note or comment
> > 
> > good
> 
> I can confirmed that I did this
> 
> >> 5) enter \printbibliography in ERT
> > 
> > good
> 
> I can confirm that i did this
> 
> > 6) change from bibtex to biber, go to Tools→Settings→Output→LaTeX and
> > 
> >> change the bibtex
> > 
> > good
> 
> I can confirm I did this
> 
> > 7) pass the option backend=biber
> > 
> > see comment to point 3a above
> 
> I did add this and without this
> 
> >> When I inserted the citation, Lyx managed to find it.
> >> But when I previewed it, the citation is not in author-year and no
> >> bibliography printed
> >> 
> >> Did I miss any steps? I am using Lyx 2.0.6
> > 
> > Let me know if it works.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Stefano
> > --
> > __
> > Stefano Franchi
> > Associate Research Professor
> > Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
> > Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
> > College Station, Texas, USA
> > 
> > stef...@tamu.edu
> > http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

Wolfgang,

your file had an error in the preamble. You had

\addbibresource{/home/stefano/Desktop/PBRef.bib}


but the file you enclosed is called PBReffXX.bib


Once I fixed the filename to PBRefXX.bib the file compiled fine, and the
references and bibliography appeared in the pdf output (I also had to
change the directory, of course).


Stefano


On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>   Thanks, Stefano.
>
>
>
> Here again what I followed up or tried:
>
>
>
> 1) Put the file biblatex.module in the layouts folder
>
> I guess the /.lyx/layouts/ is meant ?
>
> or is it documents>module>Biblatex-citation-styles
>
> I have selected this and added to 'chosen' in right box
>
> or both, which I tried ??
>
> 2) tools>reconfigure
>
> restart lyx
>
> 3) documents>Settings>Bibliography
>
> citation style: standard
>
> Processor: biber
>
> 3) preamble>
>
> \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
>
> \addbibresource{}
>
> in my case \addbibresource{PBRef.bib}
>
> tried also
>
> \addbibresource{/home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}
>
>
>
> 4) Insert>List/TOC>BibTeX Bibliography...
>
> in my case PBRef
>
> style: plain
>
> and put it in LyX note (turns yellow)
>
> 5) \printbibliography in ERT
>
> inserted after the yellow BibTeX Bibliography note
>
> 6) Tools>Settings>Output>LaTeX
>
> processor: biber
>
>
>
> I did all this including reconfigure, the terminal says
>
> Running: biber "PB-Biber"
>
> INFO - This is Biber 1.6
>
> INFO - Logfile is 'PB-Biber.blg'
>
> INFO - Reading 'PB-Biber.bcf'
>
> INFO - Found 748 citekeys in bib section 0
>
> INFO - Processing section 0
>
> INFO - Looking for bibtex format file
> '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib' for section 0
>
> ERROR - Cannot find '/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib'!
>
> INFO - ERRORS: 1
>
> support/Systemcall.cpp (273): Systemcall: 'biber "PB-Biber"' finished with
> exit code 2
>
>
>
> However, the PBRef.bib is there:
>
> > so you can make up your own command by typing the following
>
> > at a prompt, to get the complete path of file "myfilename.bib"
>
> >
>
> > $>ls $PWD/myfilename.bib
>
> Dolphin tells me:
>
> /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal
>
> and your proposal:
>
> we@wolfgang:~/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal$ $ls $PWD/PBRef.bib
>
> bash: /home/we/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib: Keine Berechtigung
>
> (no admission)
>
> I changed the permission to include group, but still no change in output
>
>
>
> >
>
> > Ok, this is confusing. Are you getting the references in your pdf files?
>
> > If so, it means that biber has found your bib file and has processed it
>
> > correctly. If you are not getting the "References" section at the end,
>
> > however, you may have forgotten and/or mispelled the /printbibliography
>
> > command. Or latex may have choked on it due to some error in the bbl
>
> > file.
>
> >
>
> > Can you confirm that:
>
> >
>
> > 1. You are getting the correct citations in the pdf file
>
> yes, I do
>
> > 2. You have entered \printbibliography in ERT at the end of your
>
> > document
>
> yes, I did
>
> > 3. You do not see a corresponding "References" or "Works
>
> > cited" section with your full references at the end of your pdf file
>
> No, I don't
>
>
>
> I should perhaps add, that I use Koma script (book)
>
> I tried with the normal book style,
>
> but get an error
>
> Der Absatzstil `Publishers' wurde nicht gefunden.
>
> (paragraph style `Publishers' was not found
>
> The same with other book styles except Koma
>
>
>
> I have taken out all entrances in the preamble except
>
>
>
> \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
>
> %could also be
>
> % \usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true]{biblatex}
>
> \addbibresource{/home/WE/Photobiology2013/PBRFigFinal/PBRef.bib}
>
>
>
> but still no Bibliography output in the pdf
>
> although the references are cited in the pdf output
>
>
>
> I tried furthermore ps output, same problem: citations alright, but no
> Bibliography output.
>
>
>
> I tried also a (almost) minimal example with no success either.
>
> May I include this example and the bib file going with it? It is quite
> short and might help you in finding out what I do wrong.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all the help for and patience with me
>
>
>
>
>
> Wolfgang
>



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the 
versions of biber and biblatex.
According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are
Biber version 1.8
Biblatex version 2.8
If I check via synaptic (debian)
I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber
and 1.7-1 for biblatex.

Since I have installed texlive 2013
I searched for biber and found it to be in 
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/

and biblatex in
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/

Two questions:

How can I find out the version of these?
How can I find out, that they are used by lyx

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>  On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>
>
>
> I wonder whether my and Kim's difficulties with biber has to do with the
> versions of biber and biblatex.
>
> According to the biber handbook (Kime, UK) the latest are
>
> Biber version 1.8
>
> Biblatex version 2.8
>
> If I check via synaptic (debian)
>
> I have 0.9.9+release-1 for Biber
>
> and 1.7-1 for biblatex.
>
>
>

Thos are very old version. I would not recommend using biblatex <2


> Since I have installed texlive 2013
>
> I searched for biber and found it to be in
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/x86-64-linux/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/bibtex/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/source/bibtex/
>
>
>

>
> and biblatex in
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/latex/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/biblatex/
>
>
>
> Two questions:
>
>
>
> How can I find out the version of these?
>

for biber type
biber --version
at a prompt

for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex is
loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

How can I find out, that they are used by lyx
>

If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
(recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you saw
with "biber --version" and which is located in the output of "which biber".
If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file, using the F2
shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set up KDE. I never
got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it from the command line.

Cheers,

Stefano




-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 15:54:44 stefano franchi wrote:
> Wolfgang, Kamarul,
> 
> my guess is that you have the same problem. Namely, biber cannot find
> the bib file. Or perhaps biber is not launched at all.
> 
> Try looking at the latex log (Document>>LaTeX log), and check out both
> the latex log proper and the bibtex log (the two choices in  the
> dropdown menu). You should get an idea of what is going wrong. If biber
> cannot find the file, you should see something like the following in
> the "bibtex" log:
> 
> [181] Biber.pm:3190> INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '[YOUR BIB
> FILENAME HERE]' for section 0
> [252] Utils.pm:185> ERROR - Cannot find '[YOUR BIB FILENAME HERE]'!
> [253] Biber.pm:109> INFO - ERRORS: 1
> 
> To sort out if there is something wrong with your installation, try out
> the enclosed files:
> 1. first, copy the lisp.bb file to /tmp (that is the tmp directory
> directly under root, not in your home folder. It is generally writable
> on linux systems).
> 2. then try typesetting the lyx file from within lyx
> 3. If your result is identical to the pdf file I am enclosing we'll know
> your installation is all right and we can focus on what is wrong with
> your lyx files
> 
Doing 1 and 2 gives me in the pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (808387 ), followed by
the same reference in traditional author-year-format (808387 ).

compared to your pdf file:

Testing biber and biblatex
Here is a reference to McCarthy’s history of lisp (1978), followed by the
same reference in traditional author-year-format (McCarthy, 1978).
References
McCarthy, John (1978). “History of LISP”. In: SIGPLAN Not. 13.8, pp. 217–
223. issn: 0362-1340. doi: http : / / doi . acm . org / 10 . 1145 / 960118 
.
808387.

That means, my installation is not working properly.
Perhaps what I mentioned in my EMail Today 16:10:42?
(old versions of biber and biblatex)

So I should first find out which versions are in Texlive2013 (see my EMail 
Today 16:10:42

How to?

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:
> >  On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Two questions:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > How can I find out the version of these?
> 
> for biber type
> biber --version

it is 1.6


> at a prompt
> 
> for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex
> is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version

 biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6

> 
> How can I find out, that they are used by lyx
> 
> 
> If you have multiple versions of biber, it may get complicated. It all
> depends on your PATH variable, but there are additional complications if
> you start lyx from  the GUI. If you start lyx from the command line
> (recommended), then lyx will find the biber program whose version you
> saw with "biber --version" and which is located in the output of "which
> biber". If you start it from the GUI (double-clicking on a lyx file,
> using the F2 shortcut in Kde, etcetera), it all depends on how you set
> up KDE. I never got the hang of it, to be frank, so I always start it
> from the command line.
so do I


Thanks, Stefano, will try later.

Wolfgang

Re: Biblatex and LyX issue #was: Re: Author-year in Lyx

[stefano franchi]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann <
engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

>  On Saturday 11 January 2014 16:23:41 stefano franchi wrote:
>
> > > On Saturday 11 January 2014 11:25:43 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> > for biber type
>
> > biber --version
>
>
>
> it is 1.6
>
>
> > for biblatex, the easier way is to look at the latex log. Whn biblatex
>
> > is loaded (at the beginning of the log) it will tell you the version
>
>
>
> biblatex 2013/05/01 v2.6
>
>
You're all right then---biblatex 2.6 wants biber 1.6, so everything is fine
on that front.

I still think you may have path-related  issues in the preamble.

Do check the capitalization of your home directory (WE vs we) as per my
previous message.


Cheers,

S.
-- 
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Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

two suggested features

[Baron Peters]

Dear LYX developers,

I love the LYX software, but there are just a few minor problems that I've not 
been able to resolve.  

1)  I'm writing a book and I would like to place example calculations in shaded 
boxes which are clearly delineated from the main text.  Some example 
calculations are quite long so page breaks are needed.  However, it seems that 
page breaks are only allowed with the "Box (simple frame, page breaks)" 
options.  It would be great if shaded boxes could also include page breaks.  

2)  I have tried to convince my students and colleagues to switch from MS Word 
to LYX.  The one troublesome point for most of them is that certain key style 
files are not available for LYX.  A website that used to supply REVTEX4.1 is no 
longer working.  Many journals supply LATEX templates, and for someone who 
knows both LYX and LATEX well, it should be possible to create equivalent LYX 
templates.  

These features would make wonderful additions to the 2.1 release.  The second 
addition in particular would immediately boost your user base.  

Sincerely,
Baron Peters