Chris, I'm using Windows and LyX 2.0.5.1. Since I've been unable to make LyX 2.2.2.2 work (more about that later), and since all I needed to do to complete my document was add three references, I tried to make 2.0.5.1 do that for me.
However, since I first wrote the situation has changed somewhat. (I suppose that's due to the messing around I've been doing.) I do indeed have a BibTeX Generated Bibliography box at the end of my document. And when I click on it the window that opens contains a link to the .bib file I created with Mendeley. This sounds promising, but now when I try to insert a reference into the document (by choosing Citation) the box that pops up is empty. And now, unlike earlier today, I'm no longer able to create a pdf using any of the pdf options under File→Export. (Some of those pdf commands now produce error messages, and the ones that don't do nothing. Previously LuaTeX produced pdfs.) So I'm still stuck. Thanks for responding. Nice eagle. Bill On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:02 PM, Christopher Menzel <chris.men...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Bill, > > What platform? Mac? Windows? Linux? Also, what sorts of messages are you > getting? And, just to make sure, did you insert a pointer to your .bib file > at the end of your document by selecting Insert → List/TOC → BibTeX > bibliography? All you say is that you stuck the file somewhere but LaTeX > needs to know where to find it. > > In my experience with all three platforms, if you install the latest > version of TeX for your platform and then the latest version of LyX, things > generally should Just Work. So if you haven't upgraded your TeX > installation in a while I'd consider doing that and then installing Lyx > 2.2.2. (You should rename your copy of LyX 2.0.5.1 first to avoid having it > overwritten; it'll still work.) > > -chris > > > On 25 Jan 2017, at 3:16 PM, William Hanson <whan...@umn.edu> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > > I've created a BibTeX (.bib) file in Mendeley Desktop and used the > Import option in Mendeley to get this file into a folder in my main > collection of folders (outside Mendeley Desktop). But I can't get LyX to > access this file and create citations in documents I'm working on. When I > try to insert a citation into a document I'm given access only to an old > list of citations, not to those in the new file just mentioned. And I > can't get LyX to let me add the citations in the new file to the old list. > > > > I'm using LyX 2.0.5.1, which I've used for years. I've downloaded > 2.2.2.2, but but I can barely get started with it. It keeps telling me > that I have to add new files to make things work, but I'm unable to do so, > and the Users Manual doesn't help. > > > > What should I do? > > > > Bill Hanson > >
