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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: problems with lyx 1.6.1
From:       rgheck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2009-03-10 12:05:02
Message-ID: 49B6576E.8090302 () bobjweil ! com
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Gesualdo Scutari wrote:
> Thanks for your answer.
> I exported the lyx doc in tex and the only proble I see in the .log 
> file is that there are undefined references. It seems that latex 
> cannot find the bib file, which is in the same directory of the .tex 
> file. In the tex file I call also other files that are in the same 
> place and latex has no problem to see these files.
>
> I also reinstalled the latex distribution and lyx as well. But I 
> really don't know what else to do now?
>
When you add the bibtex file to your LyX document, make sure you give a 
full path to it. That should take care of the problem.

rh

> Many thanks for your assistance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Aldo
> Il giorno 09/mar/09, alle ore 20:04, rgheck ha scritto:
>
>> Gesualdo Scutari wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm writing because I have a serious problem using lyx 1.6.1 on my 
>>> MAC OS 10.5.6 and MacTex 2008.
>>> I'm used to write papers to be submitted to IEEE journals. I use 
>>> both article class in lyx and IEEEtran class.
>>> In both cases lyx cannot load the bibliography. I see only [?] in 
>>> the dvi and there are no references at the end of the document. I 
>>> use a bibtex file that works properly with any latex compiler.
>>>
>>> Could you please help me? I was looking for a while on the web, but 
>>> I cold not fix the problem.
>>>
>> Well, it seems that LaTeX can't find the bibliography file for some 
>> reason. The best way to debug this kind of thing is to export your 
>> LyX file to LaTeX and then process it from the command line. 
>> Hopefully, you'll then get the error message from LaTeX. Another 
>> option: While LyX is open, and after you've had a failed export, go 
>> to LyX's temporary directory (it'd be /tmp/lyxdir.OTHERSTUFF on 
>> Linux) and process manually there. Then you're actually processing 
>> exactly what LyX would.
>>
>> rh
>>

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