On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Julien Rioux <jri...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 19/02/2013 9:11 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 02/18/2013 12:43 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org >>> <mailto:rgh...@lyx.org>> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/18/2013 10:28 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >>> >>> Currently, support of biblatex's citation commands is very >>> minimal. In particular, there is no direct support for >>> \citetitle, \autocite, and so on. The former, in particular, I >>> use all the times, andit would be really convenient to avoid >>> entering it as ERT (not to speak of the convenience to have it >>> appear in the list of citations, the better readability of the >>> document, and so on). >>> >>> > Unless these macros have special handling, it should be possible to define > them in a biblatex.module based on, say, jurabib.module or natbib.module > (the authoryear part of it). > > > I'd like to take a stab at this, but I never touched Lyx code, >>> and would appreciate if someone could direct me to the right >>> place. Or to the right neighborhood. In fact, I'm not even >>> sure touching the code is necessary. Perhaps, modifying the >>> biblatex's module would be enough? It does not seem likely >>> (biblatex.module simply defers to natbib), but I maybe wrong. >>> >>> >>> > At least for the macros part, that stuff is in modules now, so no > compilation necessary. > It's possible that the only other thing we really need is some >>> indication in the citation module of how the database info is to >>> be output. I'll be happy to help with that if it looks worth doing. >>> >>> >>> > The document settings now have a entry for bibliography style. This stuff > needs to be output to the preamble for biblatex, right? Something like that > should be added for the .bib file, too. So there is still some code to > write on this front. That would be nice, but I think the current workaround is tolerable: put the biblatex AND bib declarations in the preamble and use a standard bibtex inset in a lyx note in the document to get access to the bib reference dialog. As Jurgen mentioned, biblatex's interface is really different from bibtex and it might need some substantial tweaking to align its requirements to bibtex's. > > > I took a look at the 2.1 natbib.module and it seems it should be >>> possible to model a biblatex.module from it. However, there may be >>> some difficulties with all the various styles that biblatex supports. >>> >>> We'll probably need separate modules for each of the various styles. >> Modularization makes this easy to do, whereas the old way this would >> mean hard-coding style after style after style. >> > Agreed. The styles are very different and, what's more, easy to customize, A module per style would be best. And we could start from the most common biblatex standard (shipped) styles. -- __________________________________________________ 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
