On 12/06/2011 08:52 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2011, 14:18:58 schrieb Sølvi: >> I have LyX v.2.0.1 and Windows XP. >> >> I have a hughe document with a lot of references and cross-references >> (master document with included child docs). I'm experience problems >> with, especially, the cross-references when I'm pdf-ing the document - >> some of them just turn up as "??" in the document. I have checked them >> several times, deleted and then put them back in. I have also tried to >> change them all togheter without success. >> >> Anyone knows what causes this problem and how to fix it? >> >> Solvi > Are you using a bibfile program such as jabref for your ref? > Are the ?? files in there and correctly transferred to lyx (in jabref, you > click on LyX to do that after having made sure lyx and jabref communicate) > You can check this by putting your mouse pointer on the lyx ref, the > content of it should show up. > > Usually this kind of error occurs when the ref contains some inadequate > coding (occurs often by cut and past from references in internet). There > are ways of checking the code with certain editors; I usually take half of > the document away, do the pdf, if ok, check the other half-half etc which > finally ends up at the problematic refs. I learned to do the pdf export > frequently while inserting refs; in this way I often find offending > characters (eg long - versus -- in bibtex) before I forget what went in the > text recently) > These were described as cross-references, rather than just references, so I think it's not a BibTeX thing.
Richard