I would say that what could go wrong is your references might need to be cleaned up. I know that was the huge shift for me. The major difference (and in my opinion a terrible decision) is that biblatex assumed that your bib file is valid latex code. That means that all reserved characters are escaped. I work in economics so for me, the dollar sign was the big one. I also found that there are a lot of configuration options. For me, this code was the closest I closest I got to the default lyx.
BTW, biber should work well too. Both require additional work. For me, biblatex was the choice I made but I am not saying it is the only choice. The document explaining biblatex-lyx integration is here. http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex If you follow the steps carefully it should not be problematic. This will require some careful tweaking on your end though. It took me a very long time to get two or more authors to be author 1 et. al. AND for the full list of authors to be listed in the bibliogrophy. For you, Wolfgang, given the specific requirements I would suggest biblatex. Getting it work will only help you in the long run but I found the process to less ideal than I would have liked. It took me about an hour or two to get everything working the way I wanted it to and most of it was figuring out the usepackage options. ~Ben On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:47 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < > engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > >> >> Am 26.09.2014 um 18:02 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: >> >>> Thanks, Benedict. >>> How difficult is it to switch to biblatex and what can go wrong? >>> Wolfgang >>> >> And what about biber under lyx? > > > Biber/biblatex usually work well under lyx if you follow the instructions > in the wiki. > Or did you have a specific problem in mind? > > S. > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > > stefano.fran...@gmail.com <stef...@tamu.edu> > http://stefano.cleinias.org >
