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Does anyone know if a WYSIWYG editor for biblatex exists, where I simply can enter some kind of template (e.g. regular expression or whatever) and the needed commands to produce this style would be generated.

Especially for the style of entries in the reference list. Considering different orders of e.g. author, journal, year ... brackets or not, or colon, semicolon or just a dot and so on.

From what I saw on the net, LyX seems to be not compatible with biblatex.

I think this would be a helpful tool – not only for biblatex newbies.

Remark

This question seeks for:

  • Generators of BibLaTeX styles, not of BibLaTeX contents.

  • Hence only a tool whose output is a set of BibLaTeX commands to be put in a document preamble is what the answers should be about.

  • Examples of what are not the right tools (making not valid answers):

    • JabRef, BibDesk, ... (manages bibliography entries, not BibLaTeX styles)
    • makebst, custom-bib, ... (good try, but it is for BibTeX, not BibLaTeX)
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susis strolch
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    LyX is an editor and has nothing to do with biblatex. You have to configure LyX how it should run the bibliography commands. –  Aug 15 '12 at 12:06
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    I have a project in mind, but it's still a work in progress. :( – Paulo Cereda Aug 15 '12 at 12:07
  • you can also use "bakoma Tex" – jeecabz Aug 15 '12 at 13:15
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    @PauloCereda Will it be WYSIWYG? I thought you were working on something analogous to makebst. – Audrey Aug 15 '12 at 13:41
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    @Audrey: I thought of providing both. :) The default would be a CLI (command-line interface), and with a special --gui flag which would trigger a UI interaction. My plan is to share these ideas with PLK, Joseph and specially you. :) – Paulo Cereda Aug 15 '12 at 14:39
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    @PauloCereda This would be very nice, feel free to ask for any help you need. – PLK Aug 15 '12 at 18:54
  • @jeecabz, How can BaKoMa TeX exactly help with bibliography (specifically biblatex) templates? – Vicent Nov 05 '12 at 17:21
  • @VicentGiner-Bosch, my apology, but I did not much explore on this application. I think you can have it "INSERT" Menu. – jeecabz Nov 06 '12 at 07:39
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    A good inspiration can (perhaps) be found in the visual CSL editor: http://csleditor.quist.de/csleditor/show/1/example-citation-style – Timothée Poisot Dec 10 '12 at 21:07
  • I'm not aware of any. – Nicholas Hamilton Dec 13 '12 at 15:35
  • JabRef has an ability to create new styles. Options -> Preferences -> Entry Preview. Maybe this helps – Rico Jan 20 '13 at 15:37
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    @susis, does it need to be biblatex? If you go for a fully custom style, might librarian be an option? I know it is not WYSIWYG, but it might help you bypass some problems altogether. I would say it is definitely worth a look at, if you have not seen it before. http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/macros/generic/librarian/doc/generic/librarian/ – jmc May 24 '13 at 19:32
  • @jmc For this question, yes ;-) But it's indeed an interesting tip, I will have a closer look on. – susis strolch May 28 '13 at 11:12
  • Are you looking for a solution in Windows or Mac? – wierts Jul 01 '13 at 11:51
  • @wierts Personally, I only use Linux (Ubuntu) and if I forced to use Windows I have an old Win98. I never use/used Mac. But to answer the question and the wide community of people it may concern, we should be independent of an OS. – susis strolch Jul 01 '13 at 15:00
  • @PauloCereda More then a year is over, do you have any news for us about your project? – susis strolch Jan 02 '14 at 15:19
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    @PauloCereda Well, now it's been more than two years, do you have any news for us about your project? – TZakrevskiy Sep 10 '14 at 10:28

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Perhaps a better solution would be an editor that would let you drag and drop example field values from an (extensible) list of fieldnames into a template for each type of document (book, article, report, incollection, etc), in the order you want them to appear. Add any punctuation, and then make the relevant bits italic or bold etc, and use that as the template to generate the biblatex style.

This would make a nice little web/css/xml/js project, tied to a server-side TeX installation which would display the worked examples as they are composed.

AFAIK, the strict answer to the OP's question is "No".

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