I wanted to just post an update on the LyX packages. I spoke with two people who manage the Universe archive (Ubuntu archive names are very confusing), and I have filed a sync request with the most recent Debian package. I am currently working on a Feature Freeze Exception, which would allow for the newer packages to be accepted into Maverick.
Both individuals I spoke with thought that i would be accepted. i have also created a PPA and will upload new packages there for users of Ubuntu 10.04. Once that is finished, I will let you know and provide instructions. Cheers, Rob PS, are there any thoughts about biblatex support? On Aug 15, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear LyX Developers, > > While working on another issue, I was taking a look at BibLaTeX over the > weekend. It looks like a very nice package for the creation of > bibliographies. On the Wiki it says that LyX does not support not support > BibLaTeX natively, "yet." > > I was wondering if there are plans to add it in the near future, or if > someone is working on it. If not, it might be something that I'm interested > in doing. It looks like any modifications would be minimal. Add an option > to check if Biblatex is enabled, if so, then add a bibliography command to > the preamble and a print command to the document at the point of the bibtex > bibliography inset. > > I suppose that either the preferences UI or the BibLaTeX options dialog would > probably need to be updated. I would vote for adding the needed options to > the BibTeX dialog rather than the preferences dialog. > > Is there some complexity that I'm missing? > > Re: Ubuntu Packaging > > I have gotten in touch with the Debian maintainers, and they were kind enough > to point me in the right direction. I am now trying to get in touch with the > right people at Ubuntu to petition the inclusion of LyX 1.6.7. I hope to > spend some time tomorrow creating a PPA and uploading test builds. > > Cheers, > > Rob
