On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Julien Rioux
<jri...@physics.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> On 29/02/2012 6:11 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>>
>> Having discovered to my delight that instant preview works with
>> spreadtab tables (users' list posting), I wondered if it might work with
>> the special case of biblatex when one has, e.g.
>>
>> \nocite{*}
>> \printbibliography[keyword=foo,keyword=bah, ...]
>>
>> The \nocite{*} command means biblatex doesn't need to scan the document
>> for citations. It is solely interrogating the bib file looking for those
>> records with the appropriate keywords.
>>
>> Sadly it doesn't work. I tried various permutations like including the
>> yellow note containing the BibTeX Generated Bibliography statement in
>> the preview inset but it made no difference.
>>
>> Last year Stefano Franchi on one of the lists mentioned that biblatex
>> met his needs but that it had been a steep learning curve. I can only
>> second that -- I am conscious of having had to make a learning leap just
>> to get onto the learning curve. To be able to instantly preview selected
>> bib records would be a great help as one struggles to write a
>> bibliography style file or format a bibliographic record. Also a lot of
>> user list queries arise from `wrong' characters sneaking into bib
>> records. Being able to view specific records, highlighted with a
>> particular keyword (keyword=testthisrecord?), would be a valuable
>> addition to LyX's capabilities.
>>
>> The trigger for instant preview, would be the \nocite{*} command,
>> meaning there is no need to scan the document in LyX for citations; only
>> the bibliography file and biblatex are involved.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>
> In this changeset: http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/39795
> I implemented the support for instant preview of BibTeX-generated
> bibliographies. This is part of the development version that will eventually
> become LyX 2.1 in the long run. There's a check for "Warning: Citation" in
> the log file to determine if a latex rerun is necessary. If biblatex also
> emit this warning, it might just work, otherwise this could be tweaked a bit
> to make it work.This is very cool, Julien, I can't wait to try it out. (I am travelling now, but will give it a few stress test later in the week). I am more and more convinced that biblatex is the way to go, and having a live preview would make developing styles or variants thereof much much easier. Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
