Re: Error message with bad citation/reference

[Bob Alvarez]

Bob Alvarez  gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Is there a way to get Lyx to display an error message when it cannot 
> find a citation in a bibtex database or a cross-reference to a label in 
> the document?
> 

Here is the way to do it:
1. In Lyx (my version is 2.1.3 on Windows 7), select View|Messages Pane

2. make a small change in your file so the document will be re-processed

3. Click on View (the two eyes icon) or ctrl-R
You will see many messages appear.

4. Scroll down to the line containing 
bibtex 

Error message with bad citation/reference

[Bob Alvarez]

Is there a way to get Lyx to display an error message when it cannot 
find a citation in a bibtex database or a cross-reference to a label in 
the document?


So far, it just silently puts a question mark or some other indication 
in the pdf but this is an important error that I need to correct. In 
small documents these are easy to spot but in large documents like a 
book with multiple child files these can be easy to miss.


TIA

Bob