Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 20:19 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > i have stumpled upon this ugly bibtex record, which causes peculiar > behaviour. > > the article entry below does not contain the mandatory author field, and > this causes strange things to happen in lyx 1.3.6 using natbib numerical -> > the citation menu goes fubar. > > can someone confirm this? > > shouldnt the bibtex parser within lyx raise warnings about this?
The bibtex parser in LyX is too stupid (and bibtex syntax is stupid, too). I normalize all my bibtex files with bibtool and never got any problem: http://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool.en.html Georg