On Tuesday 18 November 2003 20:35, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: > Hello, > En Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:40:55 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribiÃÂ: > > Does somebody know, how a particular reference is searched for if it is > > found > > in let's say bib1.bib and bib2.bib and bib5.bib? According to the > > sequence in > > the BibTeX data bank (which is, let's say 1,2,3,4,5)? > > make, in a shell: > > cat bib1.bib and bib2.bib and bib5.bib | sort > all_refs.bib
> > then edit (with any tool or manually ) the file and erase the duplicates. > > THen, in the lyx file use all_refs.bib only as the bib database. Thanks for the proposal. Pybliographic has a merge function. However, I am afraid I have not explained well enough my problem. Out of a few thousand citations (in the different .bib-files) I want only the ones which are actually cited in my book (perhaps 20 or so) and get them in a new (pybliographic-) file. -- Wolfgang Engelmann Schlossgartenstr. 22 D72070 TÃBINGEN (Germany) Tel. (0)7071-68324/5 Time flies like an arrow, but fruitflies like a banana
