> Guys, I'm amazed that this thread has gone on as long as it has. I'm going > to pop my head in at the door one final time and will then leave you to > play on your own again.
I am amazed as well, in that many people even do not consider this as a bug. A bug report has been created (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2186) and accepted as NEW so we should just wait for someone (Andre? Georg?) to fix it. I would also like to leave this thread with some final remarks. The root of this problem is of course from latex/bibtex and if a normal user really knows latex, has read all the documentations (lyx and latex), he should not put a .bst file under a path with spaces (and be considered as pro-user :-). However, most lyx users do *not* know latex that well and the goal of lyx is exactly to provide a user-friendly GUI to latex to allow such users to use latex easily. We have successfully circumstanced similar problems with .lyx, .bib, .eps etc, why not .bst files? Regarding whether or not this is a lyx bug, I would definitely say yes in recognition of the fact that lyx allows certain user input and produces defective output without warning. With or without warning is the reason why I say this is not latex' bug since latex claims that it can *not* handle such situations and gives error messages. A user will at least know what has gone wrong if he uses latex directly. This is not the case for lyx. Although it would be nice to have a thorough solution like copying the .bst files as we have done for other formats, it will be perfectly fine to me if lyx let users know the problem in a proper way, for example, display bibtex error messages, disallow wrongful user input, or put a warning next to the browse button. Cheers, Bo
