ingo frost wrote: > hello from berlin, > > I have now tried two distributions (knoppix debian, and suse linux) > and tried to install the newest lyx version and I still have > problems to get the bibtex in my lyx document to work and I did not > find any resuorces on the web concerning these problems, please help > me: > > If I use a library style like "plain" lyx parses the file without > errors but in the output are two mistakes: In the text every > citation has a (author?) remark and in the citation index some > titles are switched to lower case letters (this is a crucial problem > if you have some german titles!). > > When I try a different style like "gerplan" lyx does not parse the > file: "30 errores appeared, you should try to fix them". The errors > all look like thisone: > > >Undefined control sequence. > > ...pbell, Ingo}: {\em Biologie}, \btxpagelong > > {}\ 513. > >The control sequence at the end of the top line > >of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have > >misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct > >spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, > >and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. > > When I try to parse these file by hand with latex and > bibtex, there are no errors.. but I need to get them parsed by lyx!
The message above is output by the latex compiler, not by lyx. Go into the tmp/lyxtmp.../lyx_tmpbuf0 directory where you'll find the failing .tex file and try and run latex 'by hand' on it. The .log file should tell yo more. > So any Idea what I can try to fix these problems??? > > ingo -- Angus