On 13 June 2012 04:58, William Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > My problem is not primarily with creating new documents. It is mainly with > getting existing LyX documents (that have been transferred to my new > computer) to appear with the references in them when LyX creates pdf files > from them. At present the pdf versions of these documents have no > references at the end, and every citation in the text is replaced with a > question mark inside of square brackets. I have been partly successful in > doing what Ray suggests with NEW documents: > > > Start LyX, create a new empty document, insert > list > bibliography, > select your four bib files, press OK, now type something and press the > Bib icon, you should be able to select an entry from all four bib > files. Now preview the document. You should see "foo [n]" or "foo > (xyz, d)", and just one entry in the references. If you cannot > reproduce this, you are looking at a bug, most probably in your > installation. > > However, > (1) I can't add more than two of my four .bib files to any new or existing > document. The program simply ignores the third and fourth. > (2) When I do succeed in adding one or two .bib files to an existing > document, some but not all of the citations in the body of the document > connect to the cited reference, even though that reference is in the .bib > files that have been added to the document. These renegade citations still > show up as [?] in the pdf.
This is what's important. That happens when your document cannot find the particular key or file. In these old documents, just reselect your bib files by browsing to the correct ones. It might help if you could shift these files to a directory with or below your lyx file, then change the path to be relative (like ../foo.bib). Other than that, check to make sure there is no key mismatch. You might've changed things in Mendeley which changed the keys, which are now no longer the same as the keys known to bibtex (because they retain the keys of the first ever bib file processed). In that case you'd have to reselect your citations. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
