Rahayu Prihatin <[email protected]> írta: >Hi all,I am not an advanced user. Could somebody help me? I exported >bibliography from >endnote, some of the authors have germany characters and >there are some symbols as >well in the title. When I use it in LyX, those >characters do not appear appropriately. How to >fix it? >Thanksgreeting,hayu >
Hello: It depends on the bibliography software you use. You can use bibtex, bibtex8 and biblatex. If you choose bibtex (that is my preference) you have to replace all special characters in your database to latex codes, eg. a\' for á, a\" for ä, \beta for Greek beta etc. In reality it is not necessary to replace all special characters, only those that will be included in the output. For example if you have abstracts in your database, and the abstracts won't be included in the bibliography, you don't have to replace special characters in the abstracts. The same applies to other fields. There are programs and scripts that can convert special characters in a file to latex code. Jabref bibliography manager also has such option. Bibtex8: I don't know how it works, I never used it. Biblatex supports utf8 and special characters. I found biblatex too complex. For me it's major disadvantage that I can not make a custom bibliography style file according to my liking (or need). The number of options for manipulating output is increasing but still you don't have a full control. For that one has to make a custom style file, but is is not easy, since biblatex "scripting language" is very complex. On the other hand making bibtex compatible style files with the help of the so called custom-bib program (makebst script) is much easier. These style files can be used with the natbib package. With a few exception you can make any type style file. Whichever you choose you will have to read the user manual for that package, that is, you have to spend some time to learn how to use it. bcsikos
