lyx2lyx roundtrip test failing with BibTeX errors

Scott Kostyshak skostysh at lyx.org
Thu Aug 27 03:34:58 UTC 2020


On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 05:32:18AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.08.2020, 12:40 -0400 schrieb Scott Kostyshak:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 01:02:36AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > > The following test fails for me:
> > > 
> > >  
> > export/templates/Articles/American_Psychological_Association_%28APA%2
> > 9,_v._7_lyx22 (Failed)
> > > 
> > > To reproduce:
> > > 
> > >   lyx -e lyx22x
> > American_Psychological_Association_%28APA%29,_v._7.lyx && lyx -e pdf2
> > American_Psychological_Association_%28APA%29,_v._7.22.lyx 
> > > 
> > > I get the following errors when exporting from the GUI:
> > > 
> > >   This is BibTeX, Version 0.99d (TeX Live 2020)
> > >   Capacity: max_strings=200000, hash_size=200000, hash_prime=170003
> > >   The top-level auxiliary file:
> > American_Psychological_Association__28APA_29,_v._7.22.aux
> > >   I found no \citation commands---while reading file
> > American_Psychological_Association__28APA_29,_v._7.22.aux
> > >   I found no \bibdata command---while reading file
> > American_Psychological_Association__28APA_29,_v._7.22.aux
> > >   I found no \bibstyle command---while reading file
> > American_Psychological_Association__28APA_29,_v._7.22.aux
> > 
> > I'm guessing this happens because we export ERT/preamble stuff in the
> > backwards conversion, and in the forwards conversion we
> > (understandably)
> > do not take into account the ERT. Unless anyone wants to take a
> > closer
> > look, I plan to invert the test (i.e., mark in the ctests that we
> > expect
> > this test to fail), especially since it is regarding 2.2.x and not
> > even
> > 2.3.x.
> 
> In this particular case, it is because this file uses Biblatex, so it
> is expected that BibTeX fails on it. And the reversion to ERT is the
> reason why Biblatex is not detected.

Makes sense, thanks for taking a look.

Scott
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