On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> writes: > >> On 02/28/2014 02:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >>> Am Donnerstag 27 Februar 2014, 12:29:36 schrieb stefano franchi: >>>> - 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. >>> From my point of view (as someone being in the Humanities), this is >>> almost all that matters and the criterion that makes LyX -> Docx/ODT >>> conversion useful or completely useless for me. Everything else is >>> just a plus. >> >> Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" >> conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final >> export for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need >> to make sure not to lose bibliographic information. Only in the latter >> case do we need to be able to use or mimic biblatex, or whatever, to >> get the bibliographic information into some final form. > > Exactly - for round-trip, the format of the references is effectively > irrelevant, as long as one can see which ones they are, whereas for > export, the format is essential (not only for Humanities!). I would even > go so far and say that the inclusion of a properly formatted > bibliography in the round-trip would be causing more problems, as bibtex > et al only help on the one way - but how to get a new reference back > into LyX? So I would suggest to leave the citations in a basic format > (e.g. #+#bibtexID1,bibtexID2#+#) as a comment in the docx, so that they > can be seen. On the way back, #+#...#+# is then replaced by the citation > command in LyX, and if inside the #+# is not a valid bibtex id, it is > imported as a comment, which then can be interpreted by hand (could be a > new reference).
Just to add food for thought: an option that would keep the full power of LaTeX (including our beloved bibliographies ;-)) would be to operate directly at the level of the teX compiler. Namely, LuaTeX. As far as I know, LuaTex already provides XML output when used with ConText, so it should be possible and perhaps not impossibly difficult (although certainly not easy). Or we could start supporting Context! 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
