Grant Jacobs wrote:
One thing that bothers me about this being a BibTeX issue, is that
BibDesk writes these characters to RTF just fine. (It would tempt me to
think that there might a work-around that gets this directly from
BibDesk, avoiding BibTex.)
0) You have not understood the concept behind BibDesk - it's only a
sophisticated frontend to the database (bib) file that bibtex uses. Try
to read up on this.
1) You can enter the TeX-replacements for the special characters in the
bib-file (or in Bibdesk) instead of the unicode characters.
See <http://www.bibtex.org/SpecialSymbols/>
Since you say it is mostly for European author names, this should be enough.
2) Make sure you use a recent version of BibDesk. Also, TeXLive-2008 and
LyX 1.6.1 won't hurt.
3) BibDesk takes care of these characters automatically:
If I enter "åland sørenson" as author, the bib-file that Bibdesk 1.3.19
creates looks like this:
%% Created for khofbaue at 2009-01-26 15:14:23 +0100
%% Saved with string encoding Unicode (UTF-8)
@phdthesis{sorenson:uq,
Author = {s{\o}renson, {\aa}land},
Title = {testing}}
So even though the file is saved in Unicode, Bibdesk replaces the
characters by their corresponding latex macros (where possible, I
assume), and everything "just works" in LyX.
HTH,
Konrad
P.S. Forget the path via RTF!
