On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Christian Liesen shared this with us all:
>--} ... well, well ...
>--}
>--} I found it. I had several citations with the ampersand '&' in the
>--} journal's title. Replacing this with '\&' did the trick: My document
>--} output is fine now.
>--}
>--} Silly me.
>--}
>--} -- Christian
>--}
>--}
>--}
>--} Christian Liesen wrote:
>--} > Hi,
>--} >
>--} > I'm writing a scrreport with LyX 1.5.1 (Mac) and have a problem with
>--} > Bibtex.
>--} >
>--} > I have a lot of citations, and until yesterday evening, everything
>--} > went smoothly. Then all of a sudden LyX started complaining about a
>--} > "Misplaced alignment tab character &". Bibtex stopped formatting any
>--} > citations in the text -- question marks appear instead --, but it does
>--} > still produce the bibliography at the end of the PDF output.
>--} >
>--} > I exported to LateX and checked the file -- no misplaced & (instead of
>--} > \&) anywhere.
>--} >
>--} > I've spend hours now and cannot get it back to work. Does anyone know
>--} > how to debug this?
>--} >
>--} > Many thanks,
>--} > -- Christian
Clever you Christian, and thanks for bringing this to our attention so we may
not try the same thing.
Thank you,
Charlie
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