On 07/31/2010 02:04 AM, marcela palomino wrote:
Richard Heck<rgheck<at>  comcast.net>  writes:

On 07/30/2010 03:09 AM, soltrino wrote:
Hi, I can't solve this problem which is becoming quite frustrating.
I'm using JabRef to reference in my thesis, using Natlib and agsm (have
tried other formats too). I need to have the (author, year) format
in the document.
When I do it, looks fine in the LyX version, but when I convert it to PDF or
PDI files, it appears as (? ), although the reference list is perfect.
Can't find the reason, and would really appreciate any help.


Almost every time this comes up, the reason is the same: Unicode in the
BibTeX file, usually in some author name that has been cut and pasted
from the web. *BibTeX cannot handle Unicode.* Sometimes it will work,
but only by sheer luck. Try opening the file in a text editor and then
saving it in ISO-8859-1 format.

Thanks, tried this and worked... just for the PDI format, it goes back to (?)
when converting it to PDF, and don't even include a ref list now!
Sorry, but what can be it?

Do you mean DVI? (Is that translated?) Anyway, the solution at this point is to export the file to LaTeX and run things manually in a terminal, so you can see the full error messages. If it's an issue with PDF, then run:
    pdflatex myfile
    bibtex myfile
    pdflatex myfile
You'll probably have to run pdflatex again to get proper output, but you ought to see errors by now. Those should tell you the problem.

Richard

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