On 09/13/2010 12:21 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote:
Cristina,
I use jab-ref to manage my bibliographies for documents I create with
LyX on Windows XP and Windows, and occasionally Kubuntu. I have
personally never tried to configure the LyX pipe stuff or any of that.
I do exactly as Richard suggests, "Insert>Lists/TOC>BibTeX
Bibliography, then select the BibTeX file and whatever bibliography
style you want to use. "
That does everything I need. Then, if I want a citation, I just use
insert>citation. I'm guessing the extra stuff is to insert the
citation while in jab-ref or something. I've never seen the need
though. For this part, it's always worked for me right out of the box
on both Windows installations as well as Kubuntu.
LyX has some ability to search for citations, but it's very minimal
compared to what JabRef can do. Also, if you need to enter a new
citation, then it's a pain to go do it in JabRef and then do
Insert>Citation in LyX. Much easier just to "push" the citation from
JabRef. Once you have the pipes set up, this is as simple as
highlighting it and hitting Ctrl-L. So it's worth doing, especially on
Linux, since it is so easy.
Richard
