Thanks all, it is fixed now. That's true, just put latex symbol in it. Cheer,
Rahayu On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Csikos Bela <bcsikos...@freemail.hu> wrote: > Rahayu Prihatin <rahayu.p...@gmail.com> írta: > >Hi all,I am not an advanced user. Could somebody help me? I exported > bibliography from >endnote, some of the authors have germany characters and > there are some symbols as >well in the title. When I use it in LyX, those > characters do not appear appropriately. How to >fix it? > >Thanksgreeting,hayu > > > > Hello: > > It depends on the bibliography software you use. > > You can use bibtex, bibtex8 and biblatex. > > If you choose bibtex (that is my preference) you have to replace all > special characters in your database to latex codes, eg. a\' for á, a\" for > ä, > \beta for Greek beta etc. In reality it is not necessary to replace all > special characters, > only those that will be included in the output. For example if you have > abstracts in > your database, and the abstracts won't be included in the bibliography, > you don't have > to replace special characters in the abstracts. The same applies to other > fields. > > There are programs and scripts that can convert special characters in a > file to > latex code. Jabref bibliography manager also has such option. > > Bibtex8: I don't know how it works, I never used it. > > Biblatex supports utf8 and special characters. > I found biblatex too complex. For me it's major disadvantage that I can not > make a custom bibliography style file according to my liking (or need). > The number of options for manipulating output is increasing but still you > don't > have a full control. For that one has to make a custom style file, but is > is not > easy, since biblatex "scripting language" is very complex. > > On the other hand making bibtex compatible style files with the help of the > so called custom-bib program (makebst script) is much easier. These style > files > can be used with the natbib package. With a few exception you can make any > type > style file. > > Whichever you choose you will have to read the user manual for that > package, > that is, you have to spend some time to learn how to use it. > > bcsikos > >
