So it appears that the reason is that biber does not escape the abstract of a reference, even if it doesn't at all display that abstract. Specifically this is occurring if a percentage sign is within the abstract. Apparently all percentage signs must be escaped? Is this a bug with lyx or with biber?
~Ben On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Benedict Holland < benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I tried using biber and biblatex following the instructions here: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex > > I received some very strange errors like "Lonely \item - perhaps a missing > list environment" when some of my references were included. It was actually > 2/35 which were throwing the error except the error wasn't anywhere near > those references. Even so, there was nothing wrong with the references and > they worked perfectly well when generated using bibtex8. I examined the two > references which caused problems and they were exactly the same as any > other reference. Again, they work in bibtex8 but not biber. > > Does anyone know what could cause this error? When these two references > are removed the document compiles but I need these references. > > ~Ben >
