Michael Logies wrote:
> At 12:14 30.09.2003 +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
>
>>The point is that separating your references out into a database allows
>>you to separate data from appearance. You can view the same data in
>>different ways by choosing the bibtex style file to format it with.
>
> Angus,
>
> I only want to write a thesis, perhaps one paper based on it. That`s it.
> The way Lyx offers its references ("insert"/ "citation reference") is
> very nice and allows comfortable handling of references when editing my
> text. I can`t see an advantage of using a reference manager.
>
>>What happens if you export you lyx file to tex and then run latex by hand
>>multiple times (say 3 or 4). Does that resolve your question marks into
>>citations?
>
> Can you tell me how to run Latex manually (Miktex)? I was only using Lyx
> so far.
* Within lyx, export your document as latex.
>From the menus: File->Export->LaTeX
* Open up a command window and change directory to the one housing your lyx
file. If I call this file "your_file.lyx", you should also see
"your_file.tex".
* Ascertain what command lyx uses to run latex. This info is stored in
${PREFIX}/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults where ${PREFIX} is the base of the
installation tree. For example, the lyx executable is at
${PREFIX}/bin/lyx.
(I assume here a unix-style installation of course. I do not know what
Ruurd's native Win32 port does.)
You should find a line in lyxrc.defaults like:
\converter latex dvi "latex $$i" "latex"
"latex $$i" means that here I run the executable "latex" on the input.
Maybe yours is called latex.exe? Let's assume so.
* Run latex.exe on "your_file.tex". This is as simple as typing at the
command line:
PROMPT> latex.exe your_file.tex
You'll get a whole heap of output to screen about things like missing
references. This information is also posted in your_file.log. Have a quick
look at it. Subsequent runs of 'latex.exe your_file.tex' should resolve
the warnings about missing references. If you've run latex 4 times and
they are still present, then the problem really does lie elsewhere.
--
Angus
