On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Jelmer <jelme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I recently started using LyX, so I'm pretty new to this (even never used >> LaTeX before...) but I've got some weird problems with it. >> I'm currently using LyX in combination with JabRef to write a report; when >> using LyX itself everything works fine; citations are working correctly >> (after finding a right apa.bst file to use) and a correct reference list is >> created on exporting the file. >> >> However; citations in the text of the form "(author, year)", "author (year)", >> etc is not displayed correctly in the exported pdf: the author is missing; >> "( , year)" When trying on another computer (same LyX version) it works fine >> though. Also, when exporting to xhtml, the author is displayed. >> >> I've already tried many things. Using other *.bst files (some give weird >> errors I don't know how to solve), using other encoding/file formats for the >> library and the lyx file, reinstalling and of course Google-ing the problem. >> No success so far, so I hope you can help me. >> >> If you need more info, please let me know.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Jelmer <jelme...@gmail.com> wrote: > And, off course, just a few minutes later, I found the problem... > > Apparently (indeed) the apa.bst file contained an error. > > The fix was easy: I just removed the bst file, LyX downloaded another one > from the internet since it automaticly downloads missing packages in my case. > And then it was fixed. (Even though I wasn't able to use the annotation style > before without using the apa.bst file.) Glad you found the solution. It seems LyX should have notified you of the error in the first place and passed on bibtex's reported errors. I think this is due to the following bug: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2757 Best, Scott
