Phil Scordis wrote:
>
> I think I discovered the REAL source of my lyx/bibtex problem.
>
> After experimenting with sections of the document to identify which
> elements were causing the problem, I thought I had discovered the source
> of the error. It appeared that a very much shortened document with fewer
> incorrect cites (i.e. ones not yet in my bibtex file) would not produce
> the buffer overflow error. So I reasoned that the fewer miss-cites I made
> the better.
>
> However, after re-writing all of the cites into the original document the
> buffer overflow returned. Inspection of the .aux file indicated a number
> of figure captions that seemed to be quite lengthy, and sure enough
> commenting out these figures in lyx solved the problem.
>
> So it seems there is a strange relationship between the length of figure
> captions and bibtex processing? Incidentally, in lyx, placing a carriage
> return in the caption also solved the problem, which gives me the
> impression that it is a lyx bug?
no, it's a bibtex error and therefore it belongs not to
lyx.
Herbert
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