On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 05/29/2013 11:19 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >> >> Op 29-5-2013 16:42, Richard Heck schreef: >>> >>> On 05/29/2013 10:31 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>>> >>>> Op 29-5-2013 15:17, Richard Heck schreef: >>>>> >>>>> On 05/29/2013 04:07 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Op 28-5-2013 20:53, Bruce Pourciau schreef: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Generally speaking, whenever one submits an manuscript for >>>>>>> publication there comes a time when the inserted bibtex bibliography >>>>>>> must be >>>>>>> replaced by the corresponding bbl file. I know a way to do this: to >>>>>>> find the >>>>>>> temporary bbl file generated with when you view the LyX file. But the >>>>>>> process takes several steps. Given that we face this every time we >>>>>>> publish >>>>>>> an article or book, would it make sense to make the inclusion of the bbl >>>>>>> file a menu choice? Something like Export > LaTeX (pdflatex with bbl), >>>>>>> say? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Please see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4624. >>>>>> >>>>>> I opened a new bug to finally add the converter to LyX >>>>>> (http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8710). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Bruce was actually raising the question, which has been discussed on >>>>> the user list recently, whether the converter should simply be added, >>>>> independently of the issues with sectioned bibliographies, etc. Various >>>>> people have recently made this suggestion, because so many other people >>>>> have >>>>> asked about this very issue. >>>>> >>>>> I don't have a strong opinion. >>>>> >>>>> Richard >>>>> >>>> >>>> Can we disable the converter when a document uses sectioned >>>> bibliographies etc. ? >>> >>> >>> Not really. >>> >>>> If not, should we add this possibility ? >>> >>> >>> This looks very complicated to me. >> >> >> It doesn't look that complicated to me, iff we hardcode it in the LyX >> source. But we probably don't like a statement 'if (format = "ltxbbl") >> status->enabled(false)'. > > > Yes, that's the problem. > > >>> >>> For what it's worth, I expect that the people who would use this will do >>> so for submissions of articles to journals. I don't think sectioned >>> bibliographies, etc, are all that common in that case. So we might never run >>> into a problem. If so, then we can try to address it in the script. >>> >> Or we try to address it before enabling the converter ;). > > > The problem here is that I never use sectioned bibs, etc, so I don't know > what I'm doing. > > rh >
Is this still being considered for 2.1? There is no milestone on #8710. Scott
