On 07/14/2011 07:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: > 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". > This does not mean that they are handled properly by the algorithms that create the citations. I would suggest you at least try this with a sanitized BibTeX file.
rh > 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
