date:20140606

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-06 Thread Csikos Bela

Steve Burnham írta:
I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry
incorrectly. As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed
after the question mark. I need to remove this period but am I having
difficulty doing so. I found this
solutionhttp://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/181130/remove-question-mark-following-period-for-reference-title-in-pdf-using-vancouveI
tried to implement it by adding the \killpunct after the question mark in my
.bib file and then added \newcommand{\killpunct}[1]{} to my preamble. Upon
compilation I get an error that there is a built in limit of 9 arguments.
Searching around it seems like there are some fixes to overcome this
limitation but nothing straightforward and all involve lots of programming in
LaTeX, which I am not comfortable with. Is there any easy fix to remove the
offending period?--Steve Burnham

Hello:

I guess the problem is the bst file. It should not add the dot after given
characters as ? !.
Nevertheless I would check first the database file if the title has as ? or
?.. If it's the latter correcting it might help.

If the database entry is correct you have two options.

1. Find or create a bst file which makes correct output. makebst (custom-bst )
generated bst files never does not have this issue (at least never had it for
me).

2. Compile the document manually as:
--Export the lyx file as plain latex (tex) file from lyx. Make sure the paths
for the bst and bib files are correct in the tex file.
--In a console (or dos window) navigate to the directory where the file is
located.
--run pdflatex on the file (pdflatex filename.tex) This creates a bbl file in
the directory.
--run bibtex (bibtex filename without extension or bibtex filename.aux.
--In the directory now you should see a file filename.bbl. Look for bbl
extension.
--Edit the bbl file: search for the incorrect entry and correct it, save the
edited file.
--Now run again pdflatex filename.tex one, two, or even more time until all
the citations, references, cross references in the file are inserted correctly.

You can use latex insted of pdflatex if want dvi output.

bcsikos

reconfiguration fails (miktex)

2014-06-06 Thread Fabian Wilde

Hello everone!

I have a fresh install of Lyx (bundle) on my windows box. Lyx starts up
fine, but I can not typeset files using Ctrl-R. All packages are marked as
unavailable, although the miktex path seems to be fine (C:\Program Files
(x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin) and miktex itself seems to work as expected.
Lyx Reconfigure fails with:

$ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/LyX\ 2.1/bin/lyx.exe -x reconfigure
Looking for python v2.x ...
Examining C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1//Python/python.exe
Examining C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1//Python/pythonw.exe
Examining C:/cygwin64/bin/python2.7.exe
Examining C:/cygwin64/bin/python3.2m.exe
Warning: No python v2.x binary found.
checking for DVI to DTL converter...
+checking for dv2dt...  yes
checking for DTL to DVI converter...
+checking for dt2dv...  yes
checking for a Latex2e program...
+checking for latex...  yes
checking for a DVI postprocessing program...
+checking for pplatex...  yes
checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX...
+checking for platex...  yes
'\\win.desy.de\home\fwilde\Application Data\LyX2.1'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.
platex: The memory dump file could not be found.
platex: Data: platex.fmt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/Resources/configure.py, line 1536,
in module
LATEX = checkLatex(dtl_tools)
  File C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/Resources/configure.py, line 506, in
checkLatex
''')
  File C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/Resources/configure.py, line 32, in
writeToFile
file = open(filename, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'chklatex.ltx'
..\..\..\src\support\Systemcall.cpp (292): Systemcall: 'python -tt
C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/Resources/configure.py
--binary-dir=C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/bin/' finished with exit code 1

Calling python -tt C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/Resources/configure.py
--binary-dir=C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1/bin/ oth works fine. I gave
almost every Permissions to everyone in C:/Program Files (x86)/LyX 2.1 and
can write file there. So, somethings is very wrong with my installation I
can't figure out what that is. Does anyone have an idea what is going on?

Cheers,
Fabian

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