On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Noel Koethe wrote: > On Die, 27 Aug 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > > Hello Ingar, > > > > Yes. I tried this and "Insert bibtex" from gbib, which is the > > > same.:) > > > > I am sorry, but I think you misunderstood me, if I am wrong please > > humor me :). > > No. I understand what you mean.
Thats good. I have never used gbib and that threw me off :) > > Lyx needs to know that you are using bibtex and which type of > > reference list you need. You insert this once into the document at the > > point where you want your reference to go. This is the BibTeX reference I > > wrote about. > > > > When you have done this you need to insert the citation you need either in > > the insert->insert Citation or through gbib. > > > > The other reason you may get this error is if the citation is missing > > in your .bib file. But then it should not work when you do it manually > > either. > > I just solve my problem. > gbib insert into the database field of the bibtex dialog "fdtd.bib" which is > the correct filename of my bib file. If I remove the ".bib" (so only "fdtd" is there) > it works. > Is this a bug in lyx (it doesn't use the filename "fdtd.bib" and wants to > add the prefix himself) or in gbib (it inserts the complete filename)? The newer version of LyX strips .bib off when you type .bib into the BibTeX reference (when you press ok). I do not know if this works from gbib. So the best thing to do is to ask the maintainer of gbib to stop sending the extension to LyX. Yours Ingar
