BibTeX, biblatex and biber ⇒ classicthesis, natbib | Sorted and compressed Citations

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Hello Dear LaTex users,

I’m writing PhD thesis with Lyx 2.0.3 and ClassicThesis-LyX-v4.0 template. The citation format is governed by Natbib numerical style. I wanted to have my references number sort and compressed, it means: [2-5,11] instead of [2, 3, 4, 5, 11], but unfortunately I’m struggling two days to obtain this.

I tried in main classicthesis file(ClassicThesis.lyx) to add in Document/Settings/LaTeX Preamble and then

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 \usepackage[sort&compress]{natbib}

I tried to change in classicthesis-config.tex:

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\PassOptionsToPackage{square,numbers}{natbib}
 \usepackage{natbib}

to

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\PassOptionsToPackage{square,numbers,sort&compress}{natbib}
 \usepackage{natbib}

Google gives http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@l ... 54936.html :

under Document Class->Class Settings->Options you enter "sort&compress".

So, I tried to Document/Settings/Document Class and in field Class option Custom I entered "sort&compress".

All this is not working. Have Anyone idea how to solve this problem?

I would really appreciate any help!

Thanks!
Michal

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This problem can be solved by switching to default citation manager. Then one can edit classicthesis-config.tex and change options here:

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\PassOptionsToPackage{square,numbers}{natbib}
     \usepackage{natbib}

Explanation:
when you choose natbib as your citation manager, LyX adds a line

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\usepackage[numbers]{natbib}

to the preamble. AFTER that classicthesis-config.tex is loaded, having two lines

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\PassOptionsToPackage{square,numbers}{natbib}
     \usepackage{natbib}

that once again try to configure natbib. But doing so is not allowed in LaTeX, so these two lines are ignored.
However, when you use Default (numerical) in LyX, than NO package is loaded from LyX, and natbib IS only configured and started from classicthesis-config.tex.

Finally, let me explain what happens when you put a custom class option into the respective field in LyX: these global options are forwarded to each and every package that is loaded afterwards, and this one simply meets natbib when it is called.

I would like to thank person, who helped me to solve it

Regards,
Michal