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From: Ray Rashif <[email protected]>
To: John Kane <[email protected]>
Cc: Jacob Bishop <[email protected]>; Lyx List <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 8:51:40 AM
Subject: Re: Citations are not working.
On 23 April 2013 19:39, John Kane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry to take so long to get back to you.
>
> @ Jacob,
> Many thanks for both your and Ray's help. I read through both and tried
> yours first and you were right. I had thought that I had I had changed that
> setting but I had not. For some reason I seem to hit cancel rather than
> save in LyX settings sometimes. It took two tries just now.
>
> @ Ray
> I am definitely going to save your post for my next emergency but what
> exactly does the code do? . Some kind of complete reset to default settings
> for a program?
>
> I'm a newcomer to Linux and a lot of commands are not yet intuitive.
I'm glad that Jacob actually chimed in to suggest the simplest
approach first -- I should've mentioned that alongside as well.
Indeed, the moving of the directories completely resets LyX (think of
how you will do the same thing on Windows; removing stuff from
%APPDATA%). On Linux and other GNU systems, ~/ (as dot files) and
~/.config are common config dumping grounds.
It's usually just a "quick fix" to check whether the program actually
runs with default settings (provided its files in the root/admin file
system have not changed), but I suggested it on the presumption that
it would be followed by a comparison of the original and existing
configs. In short, this should be a last resort (which I had thought
was the case).
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Ah I think I see what it does now. I even think it makes some sense! At its
most cryptic Linux is still easier than JCL.
Many thanks
