Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with special characters such as "ï".
Any other ideas? Matthias > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Heck [mailto:rgh...@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 3:40 PM > To: Matthias Hunstig > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives "(author?)" error > > On 07/13/2011 05:58 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using LyX 2.0 and just switched the citation style to Natbib (numeric) > because I want to use \citet from time to time. > > > > However, whenever I use \citet, a bold *(author?)* appears in the PDF > > instead of the author name. The source code looks fine to me, for > > example: \citet[p.~223]{watson_2009} > > > > Any idea what causes this? > > > This kind of thing is usually due to problems with the .bib file, and the > problem is usually the presence of Unicode characters gotten from pasting a > reference from the web or something. If you use bibtex for the processor, > then the file really needs to be ASCII; if you use bibtex8, you can get away > with 8-bit encodings; but Unicode needs special treatment and is not > presently recommended. > > Richard
