I've also discovered that the presence of unicode characters causes a soft failure. Issue #6534 is possibly related to this:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6534 Can the fix to this issue (escaping the unicode characters etc.) be applied to the bibtex parsing at initial startup also? That might fix these issues. The primary consequence of this soft failure is that from among all bib entries in all the .bib files included, only those show up that have either been parsed up until the point of error or those that have been cited in the text. Bibtex entries that haven't yet been cited don't show up in the insert-citation dialog. Inserting LyX code manually to cite a new bibtex entry works though - after this the entry shows up in the insert-citation dialog. Thanks, Manoj On Friday 26 February 2010 09:09:49 pm Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: > Hi lyx-devel, > > When the abstract field has single-quotes in it (eg. Green's functions), > bibtex parsing at startup fails with an error message like the following: > > InsetBibtex::fillWithBibKeys: Unable to read value for field: abstract, for > key: Heitz-excited-states-energy-relaxation-stacked-InAs-GaAs. > > The single-quote could be ' or ` > > This seems to happen only with the abstract field since I haven't had any > trouble with author fields which often contain names like "O'Reilly". > > Thanks, > Manoj
