The two suggestions together appear to do exactly what I need — many thanks!
-David
> On Jun 10, 2017, at 9:39 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, den 10.06.2017, 13:23 +0000 schrieb David Pesetsky:
>> Is there any way to have BibTex citations resolve correctly while
>> editing without having "BibTeX Generated Bibliography" constantly
>> visible at the bottom of the buffer.
>
> With a hack, yes (see below).
>
>> I find myself constantly going to the end of the buffer to continue
>> writing my document and having to hit the back arrow and return to
>> avoid "BibTeX Generated Bibliography" — plus it's distracting. If
>> there's a way to hide it, or to get Lyx to resolve citations on-
>> screen and in pdf previews without it, that would be excellent.
>
> The inset is needed for two reasons: (1) it tells LaTeX where to put
> the references (they could be placed anywhere in the document) and (2)
> it tells LyX which database and and style is used.
>
> For the latter, it does not matter where you place the inset. So you
> could place it at the beginning of a document, but in a note inset (in
> order to prevent it being printed at this position).
>
> For the former, you could add to your preamble something such as:
>
> \AtEndDocument{%
> \bibliographystyle{<your bibliography style>}
> \bibliography{<your bib databases>}
> }
>
> (i.e., the LaTeX output of the "BibTeX Generated Bibliography" inset
> wrapped into \AtEndDocument).
>
> HTH
> Jürgen
>
>>
>> (I am new to Lyx, so if the answer is obvious, or somewhere in the
>> documentation that I missed, my apologies.)
>>
>> -David
