Lars Olesen wrote:
+ when I want to export to plain text, it does not include the bibliography
File -> Export -> Plain text does not run LaTeX (hence also not BibTeX) against the document. Try File -> Export -> Plain text (ps2ascii), which follows the conversion chain LyX -> LaTeX -> DVI -> Postscript -> ASCII.
I tried this with a short paper of mine. Unsurprisingly, figures and math insets came out in Martian. More surprisingly to me, line breaks were in the wrong places. So the entire bibliography was there, but with parts of one entry glued to parts of the previous entry. It would not be too hard to fix with a text editor, but rather tedious. Also, since the conversion is "ps2ascii" and not "ps2unicode", I'm guessing that it will do strange things to non-ASCII characters (not a problem for me).
/Paul