Dear Stefano, thank you so much for your thorough answer, which really helped me. All of the procedures you described to test my TeX-installation worked fine, and for me it is LyX, which is not working correctly. As I also have had several other problems witch my computer and with its permissions I am now looking for that. It could be, that LyX does not have the permissions to change its settings.
I think this will take a little time now, I just wanted to let you know, that your instructions were very helpful, and that I could use LyX hopefully soon again. Best Jess Am 09.03.2013 um 17:49 schrieb stefano franchi: > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:10 AM, jezZiFeR <jezzi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I could also open terminal, but I do not understand what to do then. What > exactly should I do on the desktop folder? There is the file, but I do not > know what to do with it, and I do not know how to compile manually. > > I also do not know how to run biber. Do I not need to exchange my settings > then first? This is when LyX crashes all the times… > > Hope you could help, thank you so much! > Jess > > Hi Jess, > > what I am suggesting is that you try to issue the latex commands directly > (instead of lyx doing it for you in the background). That way you could see > if latex (and biber) are behaving properly, which would mean your problem is > with lyx. This is what you do. > > 1. Open a terminal window. You will see a prompt, something ending with a $ > sign. From here on I will indicate the commands you need to enter by putting > them on a single line, preceded by the $ character. You need to type what > follows the $. > > 2. change directory to the Desktop folder. You would type > > $cd ~/Desktop > > (or the German equivalent, I'm not sure if the Mac translates the directory > names. I doubt it, though) > > > 3. Check that both the .tex file and the .bib file are present in the > directory: > > $ ls Minimal-Example-neu.tex > > $ ls Diss3.bib > > In both cases you shoudl get back the name of the file(s). If they are not > present, you'll get an error message. In that case, go back to the finder and > moves the files to the desktop. Repeat step 3 until you are sure the files > are there (no error messages) > > 4. compile the tex file with lualatex (this is latex with the lua backend, > which is what you had selected in your lyx file): > > $lualatex Minimal-Example-neu.tex > > If compilation works (as it should), you should see a lot of text being > spitted out on the terminal. At the end, on the last line, it should say: > > Output written on Minimal-Example-neu.pdf > > If not, then you have a problem with your tex installation. Stop here > > 5. Go to the Desktop in the Finder. Open Minimal-Example-neu.pdf in preview > or other pdf reader. You should see your example nicely typeset, but with no > references yet. It will show the ref keys in bold. This is as it should be, > you haven't run your bib processor yet (biber). You'll do that next > > 6. Go back to the terminal. Check again that you are in the right directory: > > $pwd > > This means "present working directory". It should reply that you are in > /Users/Your-user-name/Desktop. If not, repeated step 2 above > > 7. Run biber. You do that with the command: > > biber Minimal-Example-neu > > (notice that you don't type the .tex suffix this time) > > Biber should run, read your bib file and analyze your references. It will > spit out a few lines to the terminal. Each line will begin with either "INFO" > or "WARNING" or "ERROR" You should only have "INFO" and "WARNING" lines. The > next to last line should tell you that Minimal-Example-neu.bbl has been > created. Here is the complete output when I run manually biber on your file: > > INFO - This is Biber 1.5 > INFO - Logfile is 'Minimal-Example-neu.blg' > INFO - Reading 'Minimal-Example-neu.bcf' > INFO - Found 4 citekeys in bib section 0 > INFO - Processing section 0 > INFO - Looking for bibtex format file '/home/stefano/Desktop/Diss3.bib' for > section 0 > INFO - Decoding LaTeX character macros into UTF-8 > INFO - Found BibTeX data source '/home/stefano/Desktop/Diss3.bib' > WARN - I didn't find a database entry for 'LeWitt:1999uq' (section 0) > INFO - Overriding locale 'en_US.UTF-8' default tailoring 'variable = shifted' > with 'variable = non-ignorable' > INFO - Sorting 'entry' list 'nty' keys > INFO - No sort tailoring available for locale 'en_US.UTF-8' > INFO - Writing 'Minimal-Example-neu.bbl' with encoding 'UTF-8' > INFO - Output to Minimal-Example-neu.bbl > INFO - WARNINGS: 1 > > You have a warning, because your bib file is missing a reference. But > everything else is fine. If this is not what you get---and especially if you > get ERROR lines---stop here and report back. Otherwise you're almost done. > > 8. Run lualatex again as in step 4 above. Twice. That is, go back to step 4, > run lualatex, and then do it again. > > 9. Check your pdf file as you did in step 5 above. You should now be able to > see your references. > > > Now, if all steps 1-9 worked, you have a perfectly functioning tex > installation, and your problem is indeed with lyx. In which case, I would > try, in this order: > > - reconfigure lyx with Tools>reconfigure (then exit lyx and restart) > > - reinstall Lyx from scratch. > > > If, on the other hand, you cannot complete steps 1-9 above successfully, you > may have a problem with your TeX installation. Report back and we'll try to > find out what it is. > > > Cheers, > > S. > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > stef...@tamu.edu > http://stefano.cleinias.org
