Setting to Biblatex makes Biber run even if no bibliography inset

Andrew Parsloe ajparsloe at gmail.com
Fri May 29 10:10:12 UTC 2020


On 29/05/2020 5:54 pm, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 28.05.2020, 23:10 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
>> I don't know if this is expected or not. Is the bibliography
>> generator
>> still run because there might be references in the .tex file itself
>> (i.e., not in an external file)? If that is the case, would it make
>> sense to condition on there being no citation inset?
> Or using a \addbibresource line in preamble or a class file.
>
> Alas I see no reliable way to detect whether or not biber must be run.
>
> Jürgen
I asked the same question in 2018 and Jürgen's answer 
(https://marc.info/?l=lyx-devel&m=153899371502800&w=2) contained the 
extra wrinkle:

Currently, we run biber whenever a *.bcf file exists in the tmp dir.
This is apparently also the case if there are no citations.

Andrew

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