Grant Jacobs wrote:
I have a suspicion that the software I used to gather the references
doesn't know" the LaTeX encodings for the umlauts, etc. and just left
them in their original UniCode.
Ah ... I assumed your bibtex files initially came from BibDesk. Maybe
it's time to switch to a reference manager with better Latex-support.
(Do you hear me shouting 'BibDesk' ? ;) )
For developers:
I'm not, nevertheless I throw in my 2 cents... ;)
Is there any sense in having bibtex "convert" files in the same way as I
have (i.e. from bibtex to bibtex) to "standardise" the files before LyX
takes them up? While redundant for many users, it might "catch"
non-standard things and may make this "just work", at least for the
situation I have.
This is probably something that bibtex should take care of, not LyX.
If you know of an existing script or library that already does that, it
might be considered in LyX.
This may also provide a means of testing that the bibliography is in a
standard (or understandable) format and report a meaningful error if
it's not. (The current error messages are a tad too geeky for
non-programmers, etc.)
Unfortunately, one could say that about almost every Latex error message. :(
Actually I do understand it ;-) No offence, but if you knew the effort I
have put into this, telling me to "Try to read up on this" is a bit
rich! :-)
No offense here either, I just did not get why you would want to
_export_ from BibDesk, if BibDesk's native file format is exactly what
LyX&bibtex want (and works).
P.S. Forget the path via RTF!
OK. Bit surprised though: there is an exporter for it in BibDesk and an
importer in LyX, so in principle it should work, right?
The LyX-importer (if you have the right external tool installed) is for
text, only, and not for references/citations.
I've put literally hours
into this.
This happens ... (same here on other issues, usually LaTeX-limitations).
I hope you can my perspective: I really expected this to
"just work" as BibDesk must be used by most LyX users and UniCode is so
universal now... and all the rest.
At least, now you know that simply saving in BibDesk solves the problem.
Fixed for once and forever. :)
/Konrad
