Thank you!
> There have been discussions about relative and absolute paths, and also bug > entries, but I don't remember the details. The current solution has evolved > over the years. The general idea is: Be friendly to user code in the > preamble and in ERT, i.e. try to make it work in as many cases as possible, > but do never parse the preamble or ERT. > > I see the point. > If you can find a solution along this line that improves the situation for > some packages, then we should discuss it. However, I believe it will be > quite difficult to do so, and I suggest a different approach: Why not > starting to implement native biblatex support? See > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4065 for details what has been thought > already. The implementation part should not be difficult (many > infrastructure parts are already there), what is currently missing is > somebody who understands the interface of biblatex well enough to propose > how to integrate it with LyX. If you are familiar with biblatex and want to > give it a try then I think that many people would appreciate it very much! > > > I'd be glad to help. Although I'm not a Biblatex expert, I'm using it quite often so I hope I can be helpful. On the other side, I still don't know how LyX manages the bibtex and the bibliografies, probably I should first give a look at it in the code and see if I can figure it out. I added my email to Cc of #4065. Best, Dimitri > > Georg > >