Well, it's good to know it's fixed. I'm dying to see the new 1.6 version!
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:34 AM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Knaus wrote: >> >> Hi Florin, >> >> I can confirm this for Lyx 1.5.6 and 1.6.x. >> > This should be fixed in 1.6. I've just checked it, and it works fine for me. > I'd send a screenshot, but the mailer won't let me. > > rh > >> I realized this already but as the typesetting is ok, I thought this was >> maybe some weird but expected behaviour of Lyx. >> But as you pointed it out, it seems to be an error. >> Maybe you could post it on the bugtracker? >> >> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ >> >> Grüße, >> Johannes >> >> Am 22.08.2008 um 13:01 schrieb Florin Oprina: >> >>> Hi all. >>> Today I've seen the funniest bug in LyX: >>> I have a paper which uses natbib for citations. In my bib database, I >>> have an entry which says: >>> >>> @ARTICLE{kageyama89, >>> author = {Kageyama, Tarō}, >>> title = {The Place of Morphology in the Grammar: Verb-Verb compounds in >>> {J}apa >>> nese}, >>> journal = {Yearbook of Morphology}, >>> year = {1989}, >>> volume = {2}, >>> pages = {73--94} >>> } >>> Now, when I try to cite this paper, in LyX I see Kageyama (Yearbook of >>> Morphology), instead of the expected Kageyama(1989) >>> If I typeset the paper, the result is just fine, so the problem is >>> only with what LyX displays in the editor. >>> >>> I thought there is something wrong with my bib database, but >>> everything was fine. WTF? And then it hit me: the word "Year" in the >>> journal name must be the culprit. Probably LyX interprets it as some >>> sort of keyword and displays that instead of the real year of >>> publication. >>> >>> I played around a bit and my suspicion was confirmed: (i) removing >>> "Year" from the journal name produces the correct result, as does (ii) >>> changing the order between the journal and year fields in the bibfile. >>> >>> This happens in LyX 1.5.3 >> >> -- >> >> Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" >> Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." >> (Charlie Brown) >> >> > > > >
