2018-02-15 3:29 GMT+01:00 Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian <mc_kier...@oeconomist.com> :
> I use BibTeX, because that's what LyX first embraced; and the version of > LyX ported for Fedora still does not support BibLaTeX. Switching to > BibLaTeX would involve more time and effort than playing with the .tex > file, because I would need to revise the bibliographic database. Fair enough. I was just asking. > If LyX is not going to support Chicago style except through BibLaTeX, then > trying to avoid wrestling with the .tex file of the paper at hand is not > reasonable; though it might well be reasonable to migrate to BibLaTeX for > future papers. > LyX supports Chicago via BibTeX as well. > > An Example that produced the yowlings about conflicting specifications > would be a crufty non-Minimal non-Working Example. I wasn't seeking to get > the yowling decyphered. My actual query stands with or without mentioning > those yowlings; my point in mentioning them was to preempt a suggestion > that merely dropped something into the preamble. > You wrote you get LaTeX errors when tweaking with the preamble. We can help you resolving this, but only with an example where we see what goes wrong. > > Thank you for the .layout file. I am in fact just playing with the damn'd > .tex file, and will finish that shortly after completing a process of > turning useful citations (which identify chapters and sections) into lousy > citations (which only offer page numbers peculiar to the edition used). > > It's very Microsoft-ish if LyX cannot simply be told to disable the the > insertions and other processing associated with the Bibliography > configuration. It can, in fact. But what _exactly_ are you trying to disable? Jürgen
