Setting to Biblatex makes Biber run even if no bibliography inset
Scott Kostyshak
skostysh at lyx.org
Fri May 29 13:20:48 UTC 2020
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 10:10:12PM +1200, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the responses, Jürgen and Andrew. Seems like a tricky issue.
Scott
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