Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Richard, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I see you're now at Brown, my alma mater (mathematics). Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? You use one of those Mac thingies, right?

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
You use one of those Mac thingies, right? Isn't there a way to rub the machine's case and then tell the genie what you need? I love the Mac genie, in part because she protects me from things that I _generally_ don't need or want to see, like this /tmp folder. A mac guru friend has taught

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: As far as pasting the .bbl file into the LaTeX file goes, here's how we do that. (I'd suggest you NOT try this with the LyX file.) As an experiment, I did try pasting the .bbl file into an ERT inset of a small text LyX file, and this

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Richard, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I see you're now at Brown, my alma mater (mathematics). Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: An easier solution may be to View-DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? You use one of those Mac thingies, right?

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
You use one of those Mac thingies, right? Isn't there a way to rub the machine's case and then tell the genie what you need? I love the Mac genie, in part because she protects me from things that I _generally_ don't need or want to see, like this /tmp folder. A mac guru friend has taught

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: As far as pasting the .bbl file into the LaTeX file goes, here's how we do that. (I'd suggest you NOT try this with the LyX file.) As an experiment, I did try pasting the .bbl file into an ERT inset of a small text LyX file, and this

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Ed Gatzke
You may need to run the latex and bibtex commands two or three times to make sure labels take as well. I usually run something like: latex file.tex latex file.tex latex file.tex bibtex file bibtex file !!! Make modifiation to file.tex here using file.bbl latex file.tex latex file.tex latex

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Richard, thanks for the help. I really appreciate it. I see you're now at Brown, my alma mater (mathematics). Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
An easier solution may be to View->DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? On Jul 17, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Bruce

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: An easier solution may be to View->DVI in LyX, and (while the DVI file is open) cruise to the temp directory LyX is using. There should be a copy of the .bbl file there. Thanks, Paul. How would I find this temporary directory? You use one of those Mac thingies, right?

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
You use one of those Mac thingies, right? Isn't there a way to rub the machine's case and then tell the genie what you need? I love the Mac genie, in part because she protects me from things that I _generally_ don't need or want to see, like this /tmp folder. A mac guru friend has taught

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Pourciau
On Jul 17, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Richard Heck wrote: As far as pasting the .bbl file into the LaTeX file goes, here's how we do that. (I'd suggest you NOT try this with the LyX file.) As an experiment, I did try pasting the .bbl file into an ERT inset of a small text LyX file, and this

bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've got a .bib file and a .bst style file. A journal tells me to make from these a .bbl file, so I can include (as a TeX inset?) the .bbl file in my LyX document and/or cut and paste the .bbl file into the TeX file. Any suggestions on how to make such a .bbl file? I know I need to run

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've got

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow. Let's say your LyX file is /home/you/doc.lyx. Open it in LyX and export your LyX document as LaTeX (FileExportLaTeX). It will turn up as /home/you/doc.tex. Open a terminal and

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
You have to run latex once on the tex file to create the aux file. BibTeX reads the aux file to find out what references exist in the document. Richard Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce

bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've got a .bib file and a .bst style file. A journal tells me to make from these a .bbl file, so I can include (as a TeX inset?) the .bbl file in my LyX document and/or cut and paste the .bbl file into the TeX file. Any suggestions on how to make such a .bbl file? I know I need to run

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've got

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow. Let's say your LyX file is /home/you/doc.lyx. Open it in LyX and export your LyX document as LaTeX (FileExportLaTeX). It will turn up as /home/you/doc.tex. Open a terminal and

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
You have to run latex once on the tex file to create the aux file. BibTeX reads the aux file to find out what references exist in the document. Richard Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should run BibTeX on my source tex file, but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: cannot open file name BibTest.aux Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce

bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
I've got a .bib file and a .bst style file. A journal tells me to make from these a .bbl file, so I can include (as a TeX inset?) the .bbl file in my LyX document and/or cut and paste the .bbl file into the TeX file. Any suggestions on how to make such a .bbl file? I know I need to "run

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Bruce Pourciau
Actually, I'm told I should "run BibTeX on my source tex file," but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: "cannot open file name BibTest.aux" Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I've

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow. Let's say your LyX file is /home/you/doc.lyx. Open it in LyX and export your LyX document as LaTeX (File>Export>LaTeX). It will turn up as /home/you/doc.tex. Open a terminal

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
You have to run latex once on the tex file to create the aux file. BibTeX reads the aux file to find out what references exist in the document. Richard Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Actually, I'm told I should "run BibTeX on my source tex file," but > when I do what I think this means, with a small

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bruce Pourciau wrote: Actually, I'm told I should "run BibTeX on my source tex file," but when I do what I think this means, with a small test file BblTest.tex, I get an error message from BibDesk: "cannot open file name BibTest.aux" Suggestions? Bruce On Jul 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Bruce