Would the '&' character happen to be illegal? I accidentally responded to just Richard, my apologies.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 03/09/2014 05:40 PM, Vance Turnewitsch wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and lyx 2.0.7. I'm trying to add a BibxText >> database; but lyx is giving the following error upon starting up with a >> document that already has a database or trying to add the database: >> BibTeX Parser: Unable to read key for entry type:book. >> >> I was using the earlier version of lyx that Ubuntu supplies in its repos; >> but it also had the same error. >> > > It sounds as if there is an error in your database. For some reason, LyX > is choking on the key. It's possible that the key contains "illegal" > characters. > > Richard > >
