On 10/13/2017 06:06 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 03:42:12PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Am Freitag, den 13.10.2017, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: >>>> (obviously, the placeholder is supposed to read %surname, not >>>> %surnamP) >>> This is weird. I see this behavior when using MiKTeX as the TeX >>> engine >>> in a cygwin version of LyX. I don't see it when using the cygwin >>> texlive >>> or a native Windows version of LyX, whatever the engine (MiKTeX or >>> texlive). >>> >>> I wonder whether it is some result returned back by MiKTeX using a >>> CRLF >>> text format that confuses the processing by the cygwin utilities. >>> >>> What TeX command is used when processing citeengine files? >> TeX is not involved at all. This is a simple (though multi-layered) >> replace mechanism of placeholders (see BiblioInfo). >> >> I don't see how the TeX engine could interfere here. > I tried to debug this, but when using the debugger the replacements > are always correct. So, I think that this is some kind of threading > issue and the observed relation to the TeX engine is not for real.
You might also try putting some debugging code into BibTeXInfo::expandFormat. Try putting: LYXERR0(fmt); LYXERR0(ret); at the beginning of the while loop. The first is the format string we're processing; the latter is what we've got so far. I'm curious when %surname% gets messed up. Richard
