Cristina, I use jab-ref to manage my bibliographies for documents I create with LyX on Windows XP and Windows, and occasionally Kubuntu. I have personally never tried to configure the LyX pipe stuff or any of that.
I do exactly as Richard suggests, "Insert>Lists/TOC>BibTeX Bibliography, then select the BibTeX file and whatever bibliography style you want to use. " That does everything I need. Then, if I want a citation, I just use insert>citation. I'm guessing the extra stuff is to insert the citation while in jab-ref or something. I've never seen the need though. For this part, it's always worked for me right out of the box on both Windows installations as well as Kubuntu. I do have to admit though, I had trouble figuring out how to add citations at first, but once I understood that I had to actually place the bibliography in the file first, it made a lot of sense. Jacob On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 09/12/2010 08:58 AM, cristina wrote: > >> hi guys! >> can you tell me how i can add the bibliography (with jabref) to a file in >> lyx? >> i'll try to explain what i usually do (without any result): >> - i make a selection from jabref >> - then i push the button lyx (in jabref) >> - in lyx i add the bibliography from the menu >> BUT nothing happens... >> please, help me >> >> >> > Have you inserted the bibliography at the end of your document? I.e.: > Insert>Lists/TOC>BibTeX Bibliography, then select the BibTeX file and > whatever bibliography style you want to use. Without that, LyX cannot access > citations. > > If you have done that, the problem may be that the LyX pipe is not set up > correctly. I do not know how to do this on Windows, so if you are on Windows > someone else will have to tell you. And I do not even know if it works on > Windows in 1.6.x, though I know it will in 2.0. Anyway, on Linux or OSX, you > can do this: > > 1. The LyX part. Go to Tools>Preferences>Paths. In the "LyXServer Pipe" > field enter whatever you want, really. I have: > /home/rgheck/.lyxpipe > but you can put the pipe wherever you wish. LyX will then create two pipes > on startup, one with the extension ".in" and one with the extension ".out". > > 2. The JabRef part. Go to Options>Preferences>External Programs and enter > exactly the same thing you did in LyX. So I have "/home/rgheck/.lyxpipe". > > Now restart LyX and JabRef, so the new preferences take effect. > > Richard > > >
