On 07/23/2011 05:59 AM, Peter Kohlert wrote: >> It sounds to me like a bug in that software, something like a bad >> regular expression that is catching too much text. FYI, I'm guessing the >> "functional characters" are something like the "[=" and "=]" that seem >> to surround these citations. >> >> FWIW, as well, this sounds like a needlessly complicated system. Why not >> just use a BibTeX editor, or have this program export a BibTeX file, and >> use that for the references? If you ultimately need a file that has just >> those references, then you can use the aux2bib program to make one. >> >> Richard > > Thank you for your reply, Richard. But switching to a different > bibliography software isn't really an option since I would have to > replace over 340 references in the text. > If you can write a little Perl script, this is much easier than it sounds.
> I'm now closer to understanding the problem. When I viewed the source > code in LyX (the LaTeX code) I couldn't see that something in the way > the files were coded had changed. I used Windows Editor to open the > two .lyx files, the one before and the one after the compilation, and > I noticed that the umlauts (I'm writing my paper in German) looked > normal in the original file (e.g. "ö" and "ü") but in the new file > they had been transformed into codes (e.g. "ö" and "ü"). Now LyX > didn't seem to have any problems with the coded umlauts although they > were different from the original file. But the ordinary looking ones > that appeared in some of the references generated by Bibliographix > caused the corresponding text passages to disappear in LyX. > I googled "ö" and found out that it's UTF-8 code. But I don't know > what to do with that information. > Obviously, I can use the replace-function of the Editor to transform > the umlauts into UTF-8 and I suspect that that's as close to a > solution as I will get with this problem. But I wonder what caused it. > Probably the program that does the replacement saves the file with a UTF-8 encoding, though it reads it in whatever it already is. This is bad, since LaTeX doesn't recognize UTF-8. An option is to use xetex for the final compilation, which does. Richard
