Those questions are far beyond my knowledge level. We need one of the gurus
to step in. Sorry.
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 10:57, Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de>
wrote:
> On 22.01.19 20:37, John Kane wrote:
>
> Strange, I tossed your reference into an existing .bib file and the Umlaute
> came through just fine when I exported to text and to html. I don't use
> jabref a lot so I may not be duplicating your actions> I simply went File >
> Export
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 2:06:49 p.m. EST, Wolfgang Engelmann
> <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>
> Sorry, off topic,
>
> but I have two questions re Jabref
>
> 1. If I want to save or select a file, the menu opens BEHIND the Jabref.
> How can I get it in the forground?
>
> 2. I can't get Jabref (it's 4.3.1) to export Umlaute (neither in UTF8
> nor in Din1505 nor in html.
>
> Example:
> @Article{Buenning1932c,
> author = {Bünning, E.},
> title = {Über die {E}rblichkeit der {T}agesperiodizität bei den
> \emph{{P}haseolus}-{B}lättern},
> journal = {Jb. wiss. Botanik},
> year = {1932},
> volume = {77},
> pages = {283-320},
> }
>
> Note, that I talk just about the Jabref export itself, not via lyx.
>
> I could not find help in the net, it just says it would work. But not
> for me.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> Thanks, John. I have, by the way, tried also to use biblatex in Jabref.
> Same problem. I also tried German as the language- no cure. Could it be due
> to a general language setting on my PC? And where would I check for it? I
> am using
>
> Downloads$ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia \n \l and the KDE version
>
> This is the keybord input configuration:
>
> Current configuration for the input method:
>
> * Active configuration: missing (normally missing)
>
> * Normal automatic choice: none (normally ibus or fcitx or uim)
>
> * Override rule:
> zh_CN,fcitx:zh_TW,fcitx:zh_HK,fcitx:zh_SG,fcitx:ja_JP,fcitx:ko_KR,fcitx:vi_VN,fcitx
>
> * Current override choice: (de_DE)
>
> * Current automatic choice: none
>
> * Number of valid choices: 1 (normally 1)
>
> The override rule is defined in /etc/default/im-config.
>
> The configuration set by im-config is activated by re-starting X.
>
> Explicit selection is not required to enable the automatic configuration
> if the active one is default/auto/cjkv/missing.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
