Luca De Marini wrote:
Hallo everyone... this is getting me reaaaaally tired :(On my computer
bibliography works like a charm and it really is so nice to use and see, but
today I finally managed to have my girlfriend stay sitted on the damned
chair, to explain her how to use it and, of course, it didn't work :(
You know, when you have to show something cool to someone important, well,
it simply doesn't work having you look like a stupid geek or something.
Well, now, the problem is that I followed the same steps you showed me
before with her computer too, so, no jokes.
I start by telling you I installed Lyx 1.6 over 1.5 as I did on my computer
previously too (and on my mac it works nice, oh, we both have a mac).
So, the first strange this is that when I insert the bibliography from the
Insert menu, after I successfully load my Jabref database, in Style I see
plainat of course, but I want apalike. So I click on the menu and...
ta-daaaan!! There's only plainat... why the heck?! So I downloaded from the
tex site the apalike package and manually browsed for that one. It shouldn't
be necessary though, this is a problem, on my mac I see a huge number of
entries already available!! (In case you where guessing, on both computers I
installed the full 200+ MB Text distribution)..
Then, when, in any part of the text body I try to insert a reference, choose
only numerical [#ID] and try to generate a pdf, I see no bibliography at all
at the end of the document and instead of the reference number only a
bastard "?".... question mark without quotes...
Of course, and that's cute, if I use the super option, the question mark is
little over the words :)
How sweeeeet...
Please help me people.
I tried everything I got. That is:
- Removed and reinstalled Lyx.
- re-executed the installer several times
- eliminated the preferences folder so that lyx could create a new
preferences folder by itself
- tried the all thing on a new document
- reinstalled the LATEX distribution package
Nothing worked and honestly I'm out of ideas... :(
There's obviously some problem with the installation, probably the TeX
installation. I guess the first thing to do (you probably have tried
this) is to Tools>Reconfigure. If that doesn't work, try the whole
re-install first, but install TeX FIRST, then LyX.
rh
