Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks
2010/1/15 Anastasia Melekou : > This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the > way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't > know were else I can change encoding in my lyx file. > > I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same > folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens. > Occasionally I have had similar problems with missing bibliography items - almost always the problem seems to be from BibTeX entries that I have copied the titles directly from pdfs and the offending characters seem to generally be right or left quotes or em-dashes that bibTeX cannot cope with. I suspect that characters with Unlauts etc may also cause problems. When I clean up the offending entries - everything works -- Stephen
Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks
This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the
way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't know
were else I can change encoding in my lyx file.
I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same
folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens.
I then tried the terminal, although I don't know what it does actually... I got
this (if this is understandable by any of you I would really appreciate some
help):
_
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:
/Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
(/Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, ancientgreek, ibycus, ar
abic, basque, bulgarian, catalan, pinyin, coptic, croatian, czech, danish, dutc
h, esperanto, estonian, farsi, finnish, french, galician, german, ngerman, mono
greek, greek, hungarian, icelandic, indonesian, interlingua, irish, italian, la
tin, lithuanian, mongolian, mongolian2a, bokmal, nynorsk, polish, portuguese, r
omanian, russian, sanskrit, serbian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish, turki
sh, ukenglish, ukrainian, uppersorbian, welsh, loaded.
! You can't use `macro parameter character #' in vertical mode.
l.1 #
LyX 1.6.5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
? bibtex /Users/weremoose/thesis/thesis_library.bib
Type to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
?
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H for immediate help.
...
l.1 #L
yX 1.6.5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 \lyxformat
345
? latex /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
? /Users/weremoose/thesis/managing_nuclear_factories.lyx
Type to proceed, S to scroll future error messages,
R to run without stopping, Q to run quietly,
I to insert something, E to edit your file,
1 or ... or 9 to ignore the next 1 to 9 tokens of input,
H for help, X to quit.
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.5 \textclass
scrbook
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \use
_default_options true
?
! Missing $ inserted.
$
l.6 \use_
default_options true
?
_
Any ideas? I am lost here, I am actually thinking of putting the citations
manually in my document as footnotes... I don't know what to do...
Thanks again...
On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:42 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in my experience I have obtained the question marks ? in the PDF file
> obtained from LyX, instead of regular citations, in these 2 cases:
> 1) as Richard said: when LyX doesn't find the bibtex file, maybe because it
> has been moved after inserting citations
> AND / OR
> 2) when there is something wrong with the bibliographic style selected.
>
> Since weremoose says he was able to insert citations using the LyX commands,
> the file path should be right (at least at the moment of inserting
> citations). So one reason for the problem could be the second one. I would
> suggest to try to select different bibliographic styles from the proper menu
> and then save the file and compile in order to verify if this could be the
> problem.
>
> pierfranco
>
>
> 2010/1/7 rgheck
> On 01/07/2010 09:23 AM, weremoose wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a mac user (currently on 10.6.2) and I decided to use LyX to write my
> thesis as it looked very promising. So I have LyX 1.6.5 installed and
> started testing it, it's very convenient and gets me nice looking text even
> with my drafts. Everything good so far. I found that I can use Zotero for my
> references, installed it along with lyz, everything works fine now and my
> citations are pushed to LyX.
>
> The thing is, there must be some kind of bug and no matter how much I tried
> I can't get it to work. I've been trying for more than a week and I feel
> quite stupid... I am inserting my BibT
Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks
Hello,
in my experience I have obtained the question marks ? in the PDF file
obtained from LyX, instead of regular citations, in these 2 cases:
1) as Richard said: when LyX doesn't find the bibtex file, maybe because it
has been moved after inserting citations
AND / OR
2) when there is something wrong with the bibliographic style selected.
Since weremoose says he was able to insert citations using the LyX commands,
the file path should be right (at least at the moment of inserting
citations). So one reason for the problem could be the second one. I would
suggest to try to select different bibliographic styles from the proper menu
and then save the file and compile in order to verify if this could be the
problem.
pierfranco
2010/1/7 rgheck
> On 01/07/2010 09:23 AM, weremoose wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a mac user (currently on 10.6.2) and I decided to use LyX to write my
>> thesis as it looked very promising. So I have LyX 1.6.5 installed and
>> started testing it, it's very convenient and gets me nice looking text
>> even
>> with my drafts. Everything good so far. I found that I can use Zotero for
>> my
>> references, installed it along with lyz, everything works fine now and my
>> citations are pushed to LyX.
>>
>> The thing is, there must be some kind of bug and no matter how much I
>> tried
>> I can't get it to work. I've been trying for more than a week and I feel
>> quite stupid... I am inserting my BibTex generated bibliography at the end
>> of my document, I select my database file, I add citations, fine, but the
>> citations just don't want to show up in my pdf file. I tried changing the
>> document style, nothing (I am using book-komma-script) I tried the
>> bibliography preferences with all the citation options, I tried latex
>> export, I tried dvi preview, I tried pdf preview, all I get is instead of
>> my
>> references a questionmark [?] or ? depending on the citation preferences
>> and
>> no bibliography in the end. I tried to use different citation styles as
>> well, it is still not working.
>>
>>
>>
> One common reason for this is that the BibTeX file has the wrong sort of
> encoding, in particular, that you are somewhere using Unicode characters
> that are confusing the BibTeX processor. This is especially likely if you
> have tried exporting to LaTeX and running everything manually. Indeed, that
> is the best way to debug this kind of problem: Export to LaTeX; run the
> LaTeX sequence manually from a terminal ("latex myfile"; then "bibtex
> myfile"; then "latex myfile"; then "latex myfile" again, if necessary) and
> watch for error messages. You will see undefined citations the first latex
> run; this is normal and is why you need to run bibtex. It's on the bibtex
> run that you'll see what's causing the problem. As I said, quite possibly
> encoding issues.
>
> If things DO work properly when you run things manually, then the problem
> is elsewhere. It could be that LyX isn't finding your bibliography file; it
> could be that lyz (which is very know) is doing something wrong.
>
> Richard
>
>
Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks
On 01/07/2010 09:23 AM, weremoose wrote:
Hello,
I am a mac user (currently on 10.6.2) and I decided to use LyX to write my
thesis as it looked very promising. So I have LyX 1.6.5 installed and
started testing it, it's very convenient and gets me nice looking text even
with my drafts. Everything good so far. I found that I can use Zotero for my
references, installed it along with lyz, everything works fine now and my
citations are pushed to LyX.
The thing is, there must be some kind of bug and no matter how much I tried
I can't get it to work. I've been trying for more than a week and I feel
quite stupid... I am inserting my BibTex generated bibliography at the end
of my document, I select my database file, I add citations, fine, but the
citations just don't want to show up in my pdf file. I tried changing the
document style, nothing (I am using book-komma-script) I tried the
bibliography preferences with all the citation options, I tried latex
export, I tried dvi preview, I tried pdf preview, all I get is instead of my
references a questionmark [?] or ? depending on the citation preferences and
no bibliography in the end. I tried to use different citation styles as
well, it is still not working.
One common reason for this is that the BibTeX file has the wrong sort of
encoding, in particular, that you are somewhere using Unicode characters
that are confusing the BibTeX processor. This is especially likely if
you have tried exporting to LaTeX and running everything manually.
Indeed, that is the best way to debug this kind of problem: Export to
LaTeX; run the LaTeX sequence manually from a terminal ("latex myfile";
then "bibtex myfile"; then "latex myfile"; then "latex myfile" again, if
necessary) and watch for error messages. You will see undefined
citations the first latex run; this is normal and is why you need to run
bibtex. It's on the bibtex run that you'll see what's causing the
problem. As I said, quite possibly encoding issues.
If things DO work properly when you run things manually, then the
problem is elsewhere. It could be that LyX isn't finding your
bibliography file; it could be that lyz (which is very know) is doing
something wrong.
Richard
Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks
Hello, I am a mac user (currently on 10.6.2) and I decided to use LyX to write my thesis as it looked very promising. So I have LyX 1.6.5 installed and started testing it, it's very convenient and gets me nice looking text even with my drafts. Everything good so far. I found that I can use Zotero for my references, installed it along with lyz, everything works fine now and my citations are pushed to LyX. The thing is, there must be some kind of bug and no matter how much I tried I can't get it to work. I've been trying for more than a week and I feel quite stupid... I am inserting my BibTex generated bibliography at the end of my document, I select my database file, I add citations, fine, but the citations just don't want to show up in my pdf file. I tried changing the document style, nothing (I am using book-komma-script) I tried the bibliography preferences with all the citation options, I tried latex export, I tried dvi preview, I tried pdf preview, all I get is instead of my references a questionmark [?] or ? depending on the citation preferences and no bibliography in the end. I tried to use different citation styles as well, it is still not working. I am not an advanced user (that is why I chose LyX) but it is very frustrating and I can't seem to get it starting, I know that once I have it running I will be thankful but I am not there yet... Anyone having same kind of problem? Have you heard of this before? Any suggestions?:confused: Thanks a lot... -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Bibliography-problem-and-questionmarks-tp4266683p4266683.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
