On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 02/27/2014 03:47 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/27/2014 01:29 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >>>> >>>> I'd like to hear other people's opinions on this. Here is what I think: >>>> >>>> - Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is >>>> as >>>> crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math support is for >>>> someone >>>> working in the sciences. With the difference that scientists can often >>>> avoid >>>> conversion to Word, while Humanists just can't. >>> >>> >>> Perhaps it would help to distinguish two projects: (i) Round-trip, for >>> collaboration; (ii) Export, for sending to a publisher, or whatever. If >>> we >>> don't want to lose data, then we presumably have to save bibliographic >>> info >>> as metadata we can reread on import. But if we're only exporting, then we >>> can either use ODT's bibliography support, e.g., or do the kind of thing >>> we >>> do with XHTML. >> >> >> Richard, >> >> how does the XHTML export deal with bibliographic references >> currently? Am I correct that it does not support bst styles at all? At >> least I could see no differences with a simple document using >> bibtex+natbib and switching between plainnat and humannat. > > > No, it doesn't pay attention to the BibTeX style at the moment. However, in > 2.1.x, the different citation styles are handled through modules, and so it > would in principle be possible to write different modules for different > BibTeX styles. Alternatively, one could run BibTeX and parse the resulting > bbl file. The latter might be easier, but assumes LaTeX is installed. >
Ok, thanks. So I assume the latter option---parsing the bbl file---would work with other engines as well (i.e. biblatex+biber). BTW, I guess this project assumes we start from Lyx 2.1? Am I right? S. -- __________________________________________________ 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
