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Subject:    Re: LyX confused by something in a BibTeX file?
From:       Richard Heck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2007-11-30 22:06:19
Message-ID: 4750895B.1070701 () bobjweil ! com
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Dave Hewitt wrote:
> I'm using JabRef and BibTeX for citations in a LyX report, with natbib 
> and authordate3 as the BibTeX style. All has gone flawlessly except 
> for one reference. For some reason LyX is muddying up the inline 
> display for one article in the BibTeX file, and that one only and 
> consistently.
This is a known bug. The problem is the occurrence of the string "year" 
in the title. I've fixed this for 1.6, but it won't be back-ported to 
1.5 because it involved a complete re-write of the BibTeX representation 
and so is too extensive.

Richard
>
> Here is the BibTeX entry for the culprit:
>
> @ARTICLE{tiffanetal2006,
>   author = {Tiffan, K. F. and Clark, L. O. and Garland, R. D. and 
> Rondorf, D.
>     W.},
>   title = {Variables influencing the presence of subyearling fall 
> Chinook salmon
>     in shoreline habitats of the Hanford Reach, Columbia River},
>   journal = {North American Journal of Fisheries Management},
>   year = {2006},
>   volume = {26},
>   pages = {351-360},
>   owner = {dhewitt},
>   timestamp = {2007.11.29}
> }
>
> When I select this reference for an inline citation, LyX displays the 
> title twice in the Citation box window (attached) and and the inline 
> (greyed or redded out) citation lists "Tiffan et al. Variable..." 
> (even though the other reference in the same list displays 
> appropriately as "Author Year").
>
> LaTeX gets it right and the final output is fine. Any ideas what's 
> going on to create this apparent bug?
>
> Dave Hewitt


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