I do not know any Croatian first of all.
The issue that you are having is that Lyx uses a 3rd party software (bibtex
by default but biblatex is much better particularly for you) to generate
references. It is taking whatever you have in your JabRef .bib file,
formatting it, and placing it into your Lyx document. Lyx will not touch
the text within the bibliogrophy. The text also has to be valid tex code so
any ampersand and dollar sign needs to be escaped . That is why you need to
look to biblatex. Biblatex will also handle unicode natively and has great
multilanguage support. Once you have biblatex working within your Lyx
document and after you have read the biblatex documentation, I think you
would be best served by emailing that listserve.
I hope this helps,
~Ben
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:07 AM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Jim Oldfield <quietbritish...@yahoo.co.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> I believe it depends on what bibliography style you're using. For dcu, at
>> least, you can change "and" by adding the following to your preamble:
>>
>> \renewcommand{\harvardand}{i}
>>
>> However, for "et al." and "in" (used for articles in collections) you
>> would
>> need to edit the style file. Note that "et al." is Latin, not English, so
>> depending on the conventions used in Croatian you may not need to change
>> it.
>> (In English you occasionally see "and others" used in citations, but it is
>> quite rare.)
>>
>> All the above is about natbib. I don't know anything about biblatex or
>> biber.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of
>> > Goran Kardum
>> > Sent: 18 September 2014 12:25 PM
>> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>> > Subject: Lyx and references
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > I looked at introduction about Bibliographies and Bibtex in LyX using
>> JabRef .
>> > During last several months I try to write manuals for students and also
>> the
>> > book in Lyx. But, I have a problems in Croatian language especially with
>> > bibliography. I'm trying to solve a problem that occurs by inserting
>> references
>> > in Lyx with two or more authors. I have changed the language setting in
>> my
>> > lyx document to Croatian but my in-text citations still read e.g.
>> (Sheppard and
>> > Jones, 2014) but I must have in Croatian (Sheppard i Jones, 2014).
>> Instead
>> of
>> > 'and' must have 'i'.
>> > Also another example with three and more authors:
>> > (Gray et al., 2010) I must have (Gray i sur., 2010).
>> > How can I set that Lyx automatically detect and change from English to
>> > Croatian? I used JabRef and APA style.
>> > Is it possible to resolve the problem with biblatex or biber?
>>
>
> Biblatex allows you to customize all the usual bibliography strings,
> including "and" and the "et al." ("and" and "andothers" in biblatex
> parlance).
> Usually all these strings come in an .lbx file specific to the language
> you are using. There is a croatian.lbx file in texlive's standard
> distribution of biblatex, and it has the following two translation for
> "and" and "andothers"
>
> and = {{i}{i}},
> andothers = {{i drugi}{i dr\adddot}},
>
> So it looks like the author of croatian.lbx has a different opinion on how
> to translate "et al." I speak no Croatian, and can't say if she is correct.
>
> You can force biblatex to use your system-provided croatian.lbx file by
> passing the option language=croatian when you call biblatex (even though it
> should do so automatically if you use babel/polyglossia and specify the
> document's language as croatian).
>
> A full explanation of Biblatex's multilanguage capabilities is in the
> manual, look especially at sections 3.8 and 4.9. You will also find
> explained how to provide localized translations for your document only
> (instead of system-wide).
>
>
> Notice that if you switch from bibtex to biblatex (in LyX) you need to
> call biblatex from the preamble--there is only partial support for biblatex
> at the moment. LyX's wiki page on biblatex explain how to set it up. I have
> been using biblatex exclusively for a few years now and it works well with
> LyX, once you get into the habit of following the wiki's instructions.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
>
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