On 8/15/10 10:23 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.
Jurgen and I have both done a bit with this, but nothing serious.
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.
Modifications are likely to be more extensive than one supposes, which
is why this hasn't been done, in part. This is because biblatex does not
have a fixed set of citation commands---these are defined via
configuration files---so we would need some layout support for defining
citation commands and the like, if we're going to have proper support.
This means also moving some other stuff to layout files, e.g., how the
citations get displayed in the UI (e.g., \citep is: (AUTHOR, YEAR)). A
first step, really, is to get the CiteStyle stuff we have out of the
code and into layout files or modules.
I'd be happy to give advice and feedback on this, as it was something
I'd hoped to get into 2.0 and just haven't had time.
rh
