LyX ⇒ using biblatex with Lyx

[perrytom]

Hi,

I need to use a the chicago style footnote citation style for an article and I've been working on it for a long time with a different style, so I want to be able to switch citation styles without doing it manually.

So I switched over from bibtex to biblatex in an effort to use the biblatex-chicago package but so far to no avail. I'm on Windows 7, LyX version 2.2.1 and I have all the mikTeX packages installed. This is what I have in my latex preamble right now:

\usepackage[notes,natbib,backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\renewcommand\citet{\autocite}
\addbibresource{dissertation.bib}

I added the second line because someone on a different forum said it was necessary.
you can see it here: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... st-texlive


But it still doesn't work. I get no citations, just the keys used from my bib file.

Note: It seems that I can use biblatex on the basis of bibtex8 and not biber (for some reason). so I still can't use the biblatex-chicago package but I can use a similar alternative which means my preamble looks like this:

\usepackage[style=verbose,natbib,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{dissertation.bib}


I would have preferred to have the specific package. Can anyone explain what's going wrong here?

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

did you configure biber as backend? (Document→Settings→Bibliography, Processor field)

Stefan

[perrytom]

Hi Stefan,

Yes, I did. Biblatex works for me when I change it to bibtex8 but not with biber (changing it in three places: document setting, the preamble and tools->preferences->output->latex).

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Perhaps post your .log file and the .blg file (bibtex/biber log), as attachment here,

Stefan