On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Johannes Wilm wrote: > > >> You can already choose custom processors. > > > > yes, but in this case it would have to be automatically chosen when a > > certain biblatex option is chosen. > > No, vice versa. A proper biblatex implementation will have to set the > correct > option depending on the selected processor. > > you can do that as long as biblatex still supports the bibtex executable. As I understand it, this will not be much longer. > > > Of course, I don't know the source code as well. it just seems like a > > > > > >> gigantic project to me to make all this user configurabel and to allow > > >> for any other possible citation system. > > >> > > >> We strive to make it as flexible as we can, within reason. Worst > case, > > >> > > > you define BibLaTeX as a new cite engine within the existing system. > > > > yes, that is what I am afraid it has to come down to. Additionally, a lot > > of gui-elements will have to get two versions -- one used if > > natbib/jurabib are in use and one if biblatex is in use. For example if > > one clicks on a bibliography somewhere in the document, two very > different > > dialogs have to be shown. And for the biblatex version there needs to be > > some easily accessible place where one can specify all the databases in > > use. This is a global setting, so I'm not sure where this can be put, > > really. > > Why? You still can use the current elements. You set a bibtex inset (as > now), > and it will just be output as preamble element in case biblatex is > selected. > The user will not need to notice this. The current bibtex dialog can very > well > capture this. > Not really. lets look at hwo things are specified int he two systems: 1. natbib: per document: -- citation style per bibliography: -- bibliography style -- bibliography database file 2. biblatex per document: -- citation style -- bibliography style -- bibliography database file per bibliography: -- what section of the file the bibliography is supposed to be for (chapter, section, whole thing, etc.) This is very rough and not very precise. So basically when you click on a bibliography in a file that is natbib based, it should ask you for what database file it is supposed to use. When you do the same in a biblatex based document it should ask you for what section the bibliography is supposed to cover. You cannot just have it open the natbib-based dialog and then do some trickery to write the bibliography database file in the header in the end, because biblatex uses the same bibliography databases for all its bibliographies. Say you have a document with 10-15 different bibliographies. That's whne things can start to get confusing if the gui is just a hack that isn't really designed for the system at hand. > > The same applies to the citation dialog. You might need to add some > additional > widgets, but in practice, you can simply use the current dialog. > > I really do not see where the problem is. > > Jürgen > -- Johannes Wilm http://www.johanneswilm.org tel: +1 (520) 399 8880
