On Apr 20, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Sam Lewis wrote:
Thanks for the info. The biblatex development does indeed sound very
interesting.
Yes. I already use it; it's actually one of the best designed
latex packages (and for sure the best bibliography package) I've
ever seen.
Which raises the question: What needs to be done for LyX to support
it?
That won't happen by 1.5.0, I take it, but it'd be great to wheel
it out
not too long afterwards. It's a wonderful package, and support for it
could well attract new users.
One issue is that the cite commands in biblatex aren't as fixed as
they
are with natbib, jurabib, and the like, so the citation dialog would
need to be more flexible than it presently is.
I suppose minimal support could be provided by having an option in
Document Settings > Bibliography that automatically loads the package
(before or after babel; I forget which it is) and provides the proper
command for listing the bibliography. But biblatex is still in
testing and the author discourages it from being included in standard
LaTeX distributions because things are in flux. I'd suggest that full
support ought to wait.
Bennett
