Dear Friends Can anyone help me regarding the input of reference through jabref to lyx? I tried several times but jabref mentions something about the path link in the lyx. I made the change but its not working. And I did the other way like, I made the bib file in jabref and imported through lyx but when I compile the file for PDF in lyx it doesnt show the references!!! I appreciate any kind of help. Thank you very much. Sharif
________________________________ From: Ray Rashif <[email protected]> To: William Hanson <[email protected]> Cc: LyX Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 10:52 AM Subject: Re: Inserting Citations On 14 June 2012 11:27, William Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ray, > > Thanks for your careful and detailed response. Here are my answers to your > 1-4. > > 1. Yes, I had gathered as much. > > 2. I was not limited in the number of .bib files I could add when running > LyX on my old computer. But you're right. This is minor and can wait. > > 3. Yes, this is not an issue. > > 4. No, I'm not dealing with master-child documents. Your main problem therefore are citations that appear with a question mark (?). Correct? 1. The bib file you used on the old computer must be the same on the new one. Is it? Can you guarantee so? You may want to use a checksum utility [1] to verify that they both have the same checksums. Chances are they are not, and if so, proceed to (2). > NEW INFORMATION: I now realize that the .bib file I used (on my old > computer) for the most important of my old papers is in my Mendeley desktop > on the new computer but not in my BibTeX folder. Yet I can't figure out how > to move it to the BibTeX folder. A Windows Explorer search of all my > documents does not find it, and the Mendeley Desktop doesn't seem to have > any way to move it. The bottom line is that the keys in the LyX document must match the keys in the '.bib' file(s). Mendeley here is a third-party, and all it does is generate the BibTeX file for you when asked. If what you do is select the bib file directly from the folder Mendeley exports to, chances are that you're selecting a new version where in turn chances are high that keys are not the same as before. 2. Open up _all_ the bib files with a text editor. Search for a known author, which you have cited in one of your documents but appears as a '?'. The key is right next to the first curly brace '{'. This key and the key LyX shows you for that particular citation must match. Otherwise, you've run into a mismatch. Proceed to (3). If you're curious, you can manually change the key in the bib file to match the one known to LyX. Then preview the document, the citation should now be visible. 3. Check your Mendeley Desktop settings for where it stores the bib file. Copy that file into your working directory (where your relevant LyX files are for this particular document or set of documents). Update your LyX files now by re-selecting every broken citation. It is best to not load in LyX bib files that are generated by a third-party application with no LyX integration, because it may be overwritten. Mendeley Desktop, for the record, overwrites exported (bib) files. That's why there's a big thin warning at the top of the file. Personally, I prefer to do away with any kind of integration even when my final step involves KBibTeX (which does support LyX). I always keep my bib files separate from what's generating them, and they reside standalone among the related LyX/LaTeX documents. When there are changes I simply replace them and update my documents accordingly. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
