LyX and Biblatex

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Owens
I am using LyX 1.6.4, MikTeX 2.7, and the latest biblatex release (as of a few days ago) using biblatex-historian (I need Turabian citations and bibliography). I am able to get a bibliography and create citations using \autocite, but when I do so a lot of extra whitespace is added between the f

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-22 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 22, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Timo Laine wrote: 1. give a full path in the \bibliography command in preamble I tried to do this but it does not seem to work. I tried all the ways I know of writing the path, but none of them has worked for me. I thought it would be /Us

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Timo Laine wrote: > > 1. give a full path in the \bibliography command in preamble > > I tried to do this but it does not seem to work. I tried all the ways   > I know of writing the path, but none of them has worked for me. I   > thought it would be /Users/timo/blahblah/example.bib (or the same  

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Timo Laine wrote: > I'm sending you the   > example file you requested in private mail. The problem is that biblatex does not find your bib-file and thus prints the cite key. You can solve the problem in two ways: 1. give a full path in the \bibliography command in preamble or 2. put your bib fi

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Timo Laine wrote: > I tried this, but unfortunately it does not seem to change anything. > It seems the problem is somehow deeper. Could you provide a small example file? Jürgen

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Timo Laine
Hi! \usepackage[% bibstyle=authoryear-comp, citestyle=authoryear-comp, natbib=true, sorting=nyvt, sortcites=true] {biblatex} I tried this, but unfortunately it does not seem to change anything. It seems the problem is somehow deeper. Is there anythi

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread K. Elo
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote (20.12.2007): > K. Elo wrote: > > In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? > > Well, if this is the case, this might be Your problem. Just move > > the "Bibtex generated bibliography"-field to be part of your normal > > text (at the very end of you

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
K. Elo wrote: > In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? Well, > if this is the case, this might be Your problem. Just move the "Bibtex > generated bibliography"-field to be part of your normal text (at the > very end of your document). No, for biblatex, it must be in a no

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-20 Thread K. Elo
Hi again! Timo Laine wrote (20.12.2007): > I inserted a BibTeX Generated Bibliography within a LyX note. I hope > this is the right way to do it but I am not completely sure. In a note? You mean your bibliography-field is in a yellow note? Well, if this is the case, this might be Your problem. J

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Timo Laine wrote: > Well, there are no question marks, but the references are not correct > either. In place of the author name and the year of publication there > is just the BibTeX cite key in bold. Here is what works for me: \usepackage[% bibstyle=authoryear-comp, citestyle=au

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Timo Laine
Hi! On Dec 19, 2007, at 22:02, K. Elo wrote: 1) Have You activated natbib/author-year in Document->Settings? 2) Is there any jurabib-related stuff left in the preamble? Yes and no, respectively. You surely have inserted a bibtex-source at the end of Your document, haven't You? I inserted

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Timo Laine kirjoitti viestissään (keskiviikko joulukuu 19 2007): > Things now seem to work insofar that I get no error messages; > initially it was looking for biblatex.sty and something else provided > by etoolbox. But I think I am still missing something. I have no > control over how the cit

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Timo Laine
Hi again, and thanks Jürgen and Bennett for the quick and helpful response! On Dec 19, 2007, at 15:52, Bennett Helm wrote: On Dec 19, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Timo Laine wrote: I am on a Mac, and I use LyX 1.5.2 to write my thesis. I found a document to help me with the biblatex installation (htt

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Dec 19, 2007, at 5:12 AM, Timo Laine wrote: Hello! I am quite new to LaTeX, but I am looking to use LyX and biblatex for my Master's thesis in philosophy. Initially I was planning to use jurabib, but it being somewhat obsolete by now in addition to being a bit difficult to conf

Re: LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Hi, Timo Laine wrote: > I am quite new to LaTeX, but I am looking to use LyX and biblatex for > my Master's thesis in philosophy. Initially I was planning to use > jurabib, but it being somewhat obsolete by now in addition to being a > bit difficult to configure to work like I

LyX and biblatex

2007-12-19 Thread Timo Laine
Hello! I am quite new to LaTeX, but I am looking to use LyX and biblatex for my Master's thesis in philosophy. Initially I was planning to use jurabib, but it being somewhat obsolete by now in addition to being a bit difficult to configure to work like I want, I now feel like tryin