On 2/21/25 6:22 AM, Xaver Gerster via lyx-users wrote:
I have a two lyx versions, a rather old v2.3.7 and a newer v2.4.3 one, running on to different linux machines. I am looking at one and the same lyx file on both machines, using a revtex 4.2 document class. I believe(hope) that I have set all lyx document settings and lyx prefs identical on both machines. Yet, there is a significant difference between the documents on the two machines regarding editing the bibliography item settings within a plain bibliography section at the end of the document. a) In the v2.3.7 a window with two boxes, i.e., "Key" and "Label" pops up. There, adding *only* a key, renders the "OK", "Apply", "Close" buttons of this popup clickable. Clicking "OK" is then sufficient to generate the bibitem and, most important, it will produce a simple \bibitem{key} in any latex export of the lyx file. b) In the v2.4.3 a much more involved window pops up, with boxes for "Key", "Author Names", "Year", "All Author Names". In this popup it is *not* sufficient to enter only a key to have the the "OK", "Apply" buttons clickable. For me, the only way to cheat the system to get "OK", "Apply" buttons clickable, is to enter a space in "Year". Weirdly however, will produce an unwanted \bibitem[( )]{key} in any latex export of the lyx file, in which the empty labels [()] have to be removed in the end.
The new behavior is an attempt to make it easier to use author-year citations with this kind of bibliography entry. I suspect that there is a bug here, always requiring the year, when we ought only to require it when author-year citations are being used.
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