LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be the case with a

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Grant Jacobs wrote: Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: You need to use another encoding for the bib file, such as latin1, and insert the non-supported characters by means of the respective macros. Also look here for some further information: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Thanks for explaining this. Its a damn nuisance I have admit, as I've spend a long time trying to resolve this when I have little time to spare really. I thought I was starting a new thread: I set a new subject line. Is there some other thing I am supposed to do to make that happen?? I'm

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: One thing that bothers me about this being a BibTeX issue, is that BibDesk writes these characters to RTF just fine. (It would tempt me to think that there might a work-around that gets this directly from BibDesk, avoiding BibTex.) 0) You have not understood the concept

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Make sure you have 'Unicode to TeX Conversion' enabled in BibDesk's 'Files' Preferences !!! HTH, Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Since writing below I have found a work-around, which I hope will continue working on the biblio files: In BibDesk, convert the bibtex database into bibtex. This seems a little daft at first, but I picked this up on reading that on importing and exporting BibDesk converts umlauts, etc. into

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: I have a suspicion that the software I used to gather the references doesn't know the LaTeX encodings for the umlauts, etc. and just left them in their original UniCode. Ah ... I assumed your bibtex files initially came from BibDesk. Maybe it's time to switch to a

LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be the case with a

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Grant Jacobs wrote: Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: You need to use another encoding for the bib file, such as latin1, and insert the non-supported characters by means of the respective macros. Also look here for some further information: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Thanks for explaining this. Its a damn nuisance I have admit, as I've spend a long time trying to resolve this when I have little time to spare really. I thought I was starting a new thread: I set a new subject line. Is there some other thing I am supposed to do to make that happen?? I'm

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: One thing that bothers me about this being a BibTeX issue, is that BibDesk writes these characters to RTF just fine. (It would tempt me to think that there might a work-around that gets this directly from BibDesk, avoiding BibTex.) 0) You have not understood the concept

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Make sure you have 'Unicode to TeX Conversion' enabled in BibDesk's 'Files' Preferences !!! HTH, Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Since writing below I have found a work-around, which I hope will continue working on the biblio files: In BibDesk, convert the bibtex database into bibtex. This seems a little daft at first, but I picked this up on reading that on importing and exporting BibDesk converts umlauts, etc. into

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: I have a suspicion that the software I used to gather the references doesn't know the LaTeX encodings for the umlauts, etc. and just left them in their original UniCode. Ah ... I assumed your bibtex files initially came from BibDesk. Maybe it's time to switch to a

LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will be the case with a

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Grant Jacobs wrote: > Having *finally* managed to persuade LyX to generate bibliographies > at all, I now find that LyX seemingly cannot handle characters with > diacritic marks (i.e. UniCode) in .bib files when exporting them to > PDF, etc. Unfortunately this really has to work for me as it will

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > You need to use another encoding for the bib file, such as latin1, and > insert the non-supported characters by means of the respective macros. Also look here for some further information: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#toc1 Jürgen

LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Thanks for explaining this. Its a damn nuisance I have admit, as I've spend a long time trying to resolve this when I have little time to spare really. I thought I was starting a new thread: I set a new subject line. Is there some other thing I am supposed to do to make that happen?? I'm

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: One thing that bothers me about this being a BibTeX issue, is that BibDesk writes these characters to RTF just fine. (It would tempt me to think that there might a work-around that gets this directly from BibDesk, avoiding BibTex.) 0) You have not understood the concept

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Make sure you have 'Unicode to TeX Conversion' enabled in BibDesk's 'Files' Preferences !!! HTH, Konrad

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Jacobs
Since writing below I have found a work-around, which I hope will continue working on the biblio files: In BibDesk, convert the bibtex database into bibtex. This seems a little daft at first, but I picked this up on reading that on importing and exporting BibDesk converts umlauts, etc. into

Re: LyX 1.6.1 on OS X unable to handle diacritic marks in .bib files

2009-01-26 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Grant Jacobs wrote: I have a suspicion that the software I used to gather the references doesn't know" the LaTeX encodings for the umlauts, etc. and just left them in their original UniCode. Ah ... I assumed your bibtex files initially came from BibDesk. Maybe it's time to switch to a