Mike, Do away with Windows and get yourself a proper Mac.
el On 16/06/2020 13:45, Mike Reeks wrote: > Dear Eberhard > Could u be a little more respectful in your criticism and > observations. I had been using lyx 2.2 version successfully in my > review article. So the bibtex and referencing worked perfectly as > wells as the nomenclature listing. Furthermore my version of lyx is > tolerant of spaces in flienames etc. It is only the recent version > that doesn’t accept spaces. I am aware of errors in formatting > references in the bibtex file which stops the conversion. Now for > some unknown reason the conversion to pdf file works but doesn’t > contain the reference list. What has happened to my Miktex without my > doing anything whatsoever? It turns out that Miktex gets up dated > without the user knowing and that’s what might happened. > > Many thanks for your comments and observations. It is much > appreciated. I will cary on with review article using my prest > version of lyx . There is not much to be done. Then I will reinstall > Miktex and download the most recent version of Lyx. I will keep you > informed of progress. > > Best regards > Michael Reeks > Prof Michael Reeks FinstP FAPS > Professor Emerius of Fluid Mechanics > University of Newcastle > Visiting Professor > Dept of Aeronautics > Imperial College [...] > On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11:01 am, Dr Eberhard Lisse <nos...@lisse.na> > wrote: > > You have a number of ligatures such as fl or ff being one character > instead of two and therefor I don't believe that this came about by > itself. When I fix (all of) these it compiles without error. > > This is CLEARLY shown in the error messages produced by LyX(LaTeX). > > There are typing errors in the reference. Ruuning a spelling checker > would have probably picked the cause of the issue up, by the way. > > There are leading spaces within {}. > > Generally it looks untidy, if only for hyphenated titles, not something > I would send out when asking for help. > > BTW, not everybody is impressed by spaces in file names. > > And what is really irritating, not only is this not a MWE, but if you > had bothered to construct one, by removing everything but the offending > item (ie reference in the BIB file) you would have seen this yourself. > > el > > On 11/06/2020 13:36, Mike Reeks wrote: > > *From: *Mike Reeks <mailto:mike.re...@yahoo.com > <mailto:mike.re...@yahoo.com>> > > *Sent: *11 June 2020 10:45 > > *To: *lyx-users-subscr...@lists.lyx.org > <mailto:lyx-users-subscr...@lists.lyx.org> > > *Subject: *Problems using Bibtex with lyx. Help!! > > > > > > > > I have used bibtex generated bibliography with access to an > > appropriates bibtex database of references in all my lyx files that > > cite references. > > > > Upto now I have had no problems. I usually generate a pdf file in the > > lyx document conversion. Now for some unknown reason when converting > > a lyx file toa pdf file or any other file the reference list is > > missing in the document conversion and the reference in the text are > > not recognised and appear as [?]. I have no idea what has caused the > > problem. Why it was working before and not now since as far as I am > > aware I have done nothing. It happens on all my lyx files. I attach > > a simple example lyx file, the latex file and the pdf conversion file > > and the bib reference file. I would be very grateful if someone could > > shed some light as to what is going on. Its a really annoying. I am > > writing a review article using lyx which is about 6o pages long > > > > Best regards > > > > Mike Reeks > [...] > > -- > If you want to email me, replace nospam with el > > > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users > > -- If you want to email me, replace nospam with el -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users