Hi all,
I have not used LyX for the last year or so, when I wrote up my thesis
using this wonderful but really wierd program. LyX is a real hackers
delight! But, as an social anthropologist in a world of only
MS-Word-users, an instance of "hackers delight" can sometimes become
a hacking nightmare, because computer science isn't what I know best!
Anyway, this "lyx-users"-list has always been a friendly and helpful
place, and I (or rather the University of Oslo) have updated to Red
Hat Enterprise 3 and LyX 1.3.4. (from RH 7.* and Lyx 1.1.4) It seems
that I have sorted out most of the minor LyX-hassles that followed
the upgrades. Only one real puzzle remains: There are some strange
troubles in finding the bibtex-database.
I have my reference-base ("referanser.bib") in this folder:
/sv/ernesto/tik-u9/lrisan/Dokumenter/Lyx
and I have the environment variable set like this:
BIBINPUTS=/sv/ernesto/tik-u9/lrisan/Dokumenter/Lyx
If the LyX-document is in this directory, everything works fine. If
the document is elsewhere three things happen:
1: adding a new reference in the text does not work (Insert ->
Citation Reference) No datbase is found.
2: If I open the "Bibtex Generated Reference"-box, and "browse" for
the reference-database, I can add the database, included /the
absulute path from root/. Having done this, the command Insert ->
Citation Reference works fine, and I can add new references to the
text.
3: BUT still, having used the absolute path, running bibtex (by doing
View -> DVI in Lyx) still fails. That is, the DVI is created, but
refernces are just marked "?", and there is no reference list.
When i place the LyX-document in the same directory as the reference
base (also pointed to by BIBINPUTS), I need not use the absolute path
("referanser" is enough).
Any clue to a solution?
-lars
