This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the
way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't know
were else I can change encoding in my lyx file.
I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same
folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens.
I then tried the terminal, although I don't know what it does actually... I got
this (if this is understandable by any of you I would really appreciate some
help):
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(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:
/Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
(/Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek, ibycus, ar
abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, la
tin, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese, r
omanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turki
sh, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode.
l.1 #
LyX 1.6.5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
? bibtex /Users/weremoose/thesis/thesis_library.bib
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
?
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.1 #L
yX 1.6.5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 \lyxformat
345
? latex /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type <return> to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.5 \textclass
scrbook
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \use
_default_options true
?
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
$
l.6 \use_
default_options true
?
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Any ideas? I am lost here, I am actually thinking of putting the citations
manually in my document as footnotes... I don't know what to do...
Thanks again...
On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in my experience I have obtained the question marks ? in the PDF file
> obtained from LyX, instead of regular citations, in these 2 cases:
> 1) as Richard said: when LyX doesn't find the bibtex file, maybe because it
> has been moved after inserting citations
> AND / OR
> 2) when there is something wrong with the bibliographic style selected.
>
> Since weremoose says he was able to insert citations using the LyX commands,
> the file path should be right (at least at the moment of inserting
> citations). So one reason for the problem could be the second one. I would
> suggest to try to select different bibliographic styles from the proper menu
> and then save the file and compile in order to verify if this could be the
> problem.
>
> pierfranco
>
>
> 2010/1/7 rgheck <[email protected]>
> On 01/07/2010 09:23 AM, weremoose wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a mac user (currently on 10.6.2) and I decided to use LyX to write my
> thesis as it looked very promising. So I have LyX 1.6.5 installed and
> started testing it, it's very convenient and gets me nice looking text even
> with my drafts. Everything good so far. I found that I can use Zotero for my
> references, installed it along with lyz, everything works fine now and my
> citations are pushed to LyX.
>
> The thing is, there must be some kind of bug and no matter how much I tried
> I can't get it to work. I've been trying for more than a week and I feel
> quite stupid... I am inserting my BibTex generated bibliography at the end
> of my document, I select my database file, I add citations, fine, but the
> citations just don't want to show up in my pdf file. I tried changing the
> document style, nothing (I am using book-komma-script) I tried the
> bibliography preferences with all the citation options, I tried latex
> export, I tried dvi preview, I tried pdf preview, all I get is instead of my
> references a questionmark [?] or ? depending on the citation preferences and
> no bibliography in the end. I tried to use different citation styles as
> well, it is still not working.
>
>
> One common reason for this is that the BibTeX file has the wrong sort of
> encoding, in particular, that you are somewhere using Unicode characters that
> are confusing the BibTeX processor. This is especially likely if you have
> tried exporting to LaTeX and running everything manually. Indeed, that is the
> best way to debug this kind of problem: Export to LaTeX; run the LaTeX
> sequence manually from a terminal ("latex myfile"; then "bibtex myfile"; then
> "latex myfile"; then "latex myfile" again, if necessary) and watch for error
> messages. You will see undefined citations the first latex run; this is
> normal and is why you need to run bibtex. It's on the bibtex run that you'll
> see what's causing the problem. As I said, quite possibly encoding issues.
>
> If things DO work properly when you run things manually, then the problem is
> elsewhere. It could be that LyX isn't finding your bibliography file; it
> could be that lyz (which is very know) is doing something wrong.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
