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(La)TeX newbie here. I'm writing my philosophy thesis in LyX. Loving it so far but trying to hack myself around the limitations of BibTex has been exhausting. Now – finally – I've gotten Biblatex to work in LyX - what a huge relieve! With babel it beautifully renders everything in the bibliography in to my language.

I just have two issues that I hope are easier to resolve now that I'm using Biblatex

I'm using the author-year style with this in my preamble:

\usepackage[style=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}

1. I would like to separate year and cited page with colon instead of comma:

This:

Wittgenstein 1961: §4.003, 36

Instead of this:

Wittgenstein 1961, §4.003, 36

2. I would like to have the name of an author with multiple works repeated:

This:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1961). Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. Routledge & Kegan Paul. Wittgenstein, Ludwig (2010). Philosophical Investigations. en. John Wiley & Sons.

Instead of this:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1961). Tractatus Logico Philosophicus. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
– (2010). Philosophical Investigations. en. John Wiley & Sons.

Your help is much appreciated. I'm hoping that I soon will be able to spend more time on actually writing my thesis than familiarizing myself with TeX :)

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  • Use the dashed=false package option and add the following to your preamble: \renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon\space}. See also http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12806/guidelines-for-customizing-biblatex-styles – lockstep Apr 22 '13 at 12:30
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Thanks a lot! My questions were answered in the comments thusly:

Ad. 1.

\renewcommand*{\postnotedelim}{\addcolon\space}

Also if you want to remove "p." after the colon add:

\DeclareFieldFormat{postnote}{#1}
\DeclareFieldFormat{multipostnote}{#1}

Ad. 2. Add dashed=false to \usepackage[...]{biblatex}

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