Hi
I solved the problem.
I used to use bibtexall, a script to run bibtex, which I did not copy
over to my new machine.
I simply changed it back to the default.
Thanks everybody for your help,
Rainer
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Rainer M. Krug wrote:
I just managed to reproduce it with a default new file and two
references. I attache the bibtex file, the lyx file, the resulting pdf
and the latex log
This is very strange and I don't have any ideas what could be the
problem.
When BibTeX citations mysteriously fail, usually the first thing I look
for is an indigestible .bib file, which seems to be the problem here. I
compiled you doc using both LyX and export to LaTeX/manual compile, and
both failed as they did for you. Then I poked around the .bib file.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
This file was created with JabRef 2.2.
Encoding: ISO8859_1
@INPROCEEDINGS{Baard1997,
author = {Baard, E.H.W.},
title = {A conservation strategy for the geometric tortoise,
Psammobates
I think that the character immediately after "tortoise," is causing
BibTeX digestion problems. I deleted it, save the .bib file, then
deleted and reapplied the references in the LyX document, and it then
compiled correctly.
I'm no expert on encodings, but if that character is a legitimate
character in ISO8859_1, there's still the question of whether that's
what BibTeX is using. The LyX document seems to be set for "default"
encoding (for British). I don't know enough about BibTeX to know if it
reads the encoding from the .bib file, from the .aux file (which
presumably matches the source document), or whether it just uses
'latin1' regardless.
/Paul
