On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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).
This is actually wrong, forget I mentioned it. Of course, biblatex is needed again for the final output after the bbl files has been produced. 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
