[LyX/master] child documents: allow inheritance of bibliography file list (#4427)

Jürgen Spitzmüller spitz at lyx.org
Sun Feb 20 08:42:34 UTC 2022


Am Samstag, dem 19.02.2022 um 14:13 -0500 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> Cool, thanks for working on this. I'm confused about how this works.
> Is it a deep copy of the master's BibTeX or a pointer? e.g., if I
> click on "inherit", and then in the master document I change the
> bibliography, do I need to change the child again? 

Yes. It's similar to what we already offer for branches.

> If so, I wonder if "copy" might be more clear?

I'm not sure. "Sync" would be another option.

> Also, after clicking on inherit does the child's BibTeX inset output
> LaTeX when compiling the master?

It's a normal BibTeX inset. So it outputs LaTeX if it's not in a note
or somesuch.

Jürgen
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