btw, to those jabref users eyeing zotero for the fast ref capture who would not use it because you had to export to bib first... the new FF addon LyZ makes this on the fly. It's a killer feature, two clicks and you are done. And your lib is on the cloud for free... Best, -Jose
Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:02 PM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: > On 03/23/2010 09:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > >> Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not >> run >> through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some >> characters >> which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it >> would be nice to have a feature (or an external prg) checking for those >> characters. >> >> I am often searching in a data bank such as medline for references which I >> enter into Jabref, my reference manager. Exporting it into the lyx >> document >> is easy, just a click on the lyx icon in Jabref, but finding the bothering >> reference(s) after trying to export the pdf file is in my hands often very >> time consuming and frustrating. >> >> >> > I'd suggest reporting this to the JabRef folks. Perhaps they should have an > option to save in something other than UTF-8, and even to convert illegal > characters to LaTeX equivalents. > > rh > >
