Yes, a little. I have preliminary natbib support working in my tree. I'd just
like to sort out how LyX stores options to LaTeX commands before releasing
this to the general public.
Natbib can have up to two options in a \cite field; comments before and after
the citation. LyX can currently deal only with one. To accomodate two is an
ugly and extremely fragile hack.
Hmmm. Thinking. I COULD ignore the extra options for the time being and just
release a simple patch that gives users the ability to input different \cite
commands. It wouldn't break future compatibility. Are people interested?
What do people on the devel list think? Can I backport this to 1.1.6 so it
goes in a fix1 release?
Angus
On Thursday 18 January 2001 03:27, Joshua Rigler wrote:
> I hate to submit this to the developers list, 'cuz it's not really a
> bug, so I'll just pass it on to the "lyx-users" list instead, and hope
> for some response...
>
> I submit this message with full knowledge that this has been discussed
> extensively in the past. I'm just curious why, with such a major change
> to the citation dialog in LyX 1.1.6, nothing was added to take advantage
> of natbib? It seems a simple box to enter an alternate \cite command
> would be an easy first step. Resetting this globally via \renewcommand
> is easy enough, but I often want different styles of citations within
> the same paper.
>
> The last message I saw discussing this was in the summer of 2000, by
> Angus Leeming. Has there been any progress since?
>
> -EJR
