Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: I am getting bibtex entry errors. Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you need

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks, There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst files themselves and one would like to just ignore those and get a

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi Aliabbas, Unless you sent your email prematurely, I'm not sure why you would copy/paste something from somewhere without saying where you got it from. Not just for me, but for anyone that might read this thread. Please always give your source when copying text. Further, a new request was made

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala aliabba...@gmail.com There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst files themselves and

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala aliabba...@gmail.com There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly not use a broken bst file for a publication, and if a journal provides a broken bst file, I

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly not use a broken

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks for processing the bibtex file, but the keys of bibtex entries were modified and I have a huge document and I would not like to manually change all references atleast there are 200 referring places. So I would not like to upgrade to higher versions for due to this issue On Wed, Aug 21,

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: I am getting bibtex entry errors. Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you need

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks, There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst files themselves and one would like to just ignore those and get a

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi Aliabbas, Unless you sent your email prematurely, I'm not sure why you would copy/paste something from somewhere without saying where you got it from. Not just for me, but for anyone that might read this thread. Please always give your source when copying text. Further, a new request was made

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala aliabba...@gmail.com There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst files themselves and

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala aliabba...@gmail.com There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly not use a broken bst file for a publication, and if a journal provides a broken bst file, I

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly not use a broken

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks for processing the bibtex file, but the keys of bibtex entries were modified and I have a huge document and I would not like to manually change all references atleast there are 200 referring places. So I would not like to upgrade to higher versions for due to this issue On Wed, Aug 21,

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: >> I am getting bibtex entry errors. > > Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need > to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks, There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst files themselves and one would like to just ignore those and get a

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi Aliabbas, Unless you sent your email prematurely, I'm not sure why you would copy/paste something from somewhere without saying where you got it from. Not just for me, but for anyone that might read this thread. Please always give your source when copying text. Further, a new request was made

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala > There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. > Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important > for BibTeX errors, as sometimes there are even syntax errors in the .bst > files themselves

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2013/8/20 Aliabbas Petiwala >> >> There should be a way to ignore these errors and continue the processing. >> Such an option would be useful in general, but it is especially important >> for BibTeX

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak > Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? > IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly not use a broken bst file for a publication, and if a journal provides a broken bst file,

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2013/8/20 Scott Kostyshak >> >> Is Julien's test case for #8739 invalid? Or your point is that it is rare? > > > IMO syntax errors in bst files are not harmless (per se). I would certainly > not

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-20 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Thanks for processing the bibtex file, but the keys of bibtex entries were modified and I have a huge document and I would not like to manually change all references atleast there are 200 referring places. So I would not like to upgrade to higher versions for due to this issue On Wed, Aug 21,

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
I am getting bibtex entry errors.

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: I am getting bibtex entry errors. Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you need help on this. Jürgen

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Also I used Jabber to remove duplicate keys but what jabref does is converts two identical keys to lowercase and uppercase to make them different, but this does not eliminate errors so is lyx bibtex case sensitive? On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
I am getting bibtex entry errors.

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: I am getting bibtex entry errors. Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you need help on this. Jürgen

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Also I used Jabber to remove duplicate keys but what jabref does is converts two identical keys to lowercase and uppercase to make them different, but this does not eliminate errors so is lyx bibtex case sensitive? On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote:

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
I am getting bibtex entry errors.

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Aliabbas Petiwala wrote: > I am getting bibtex entry errors. Yes, these have not been caught in previous versions of LyX. You probably need to fix your bibtex database or style file. Please post the errors if you need help on this. Jürgen

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-19 Thread Aliabbas Petiwala
Also I used Jabber to remove duplicate keys but what jabref does is converts two identical keys to lowercase and uppercase to make them different, but this does not eliminate errors so is lyx bibtex case sensitive? On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 http://www.lyx.org/News#item5 (jan2013 release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I am

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 http://www.lyx.org/News#item5 (jan2013 release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I am

Re: Error in new beta lyx

2013-08-18 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Sonntag 18 August 2013, 12:26:50 schrieb Aliabbas Petiwala: > While my lyx projects in version LyX 2.0.5.1 > (jan2013 > release ) are compiling without error or warning , but in the new beta > version I get following error, also in other versions after 2.0.5.1 I