> This says that \cite can take an optional arg but \nocite cannot. I don't > know about the natbib commands. Perhaps you could do some research for me. > In the meantime, does adding these to syntax.default improve the situation?
I does. I also added \citet[]{} the only remaining thing is that reLyX doesn't tell lyx to use natbib: \use_natbib 1 \use_numerical_citations 0 so this must still be set by hand citet* and Citet* don't work (I added them, naively, to syntax.default but apparently this is not enough) Ed.