LyX ⇒ Lyx-2.2.0 fails on Biblatex/natbib

[ExecutorElassus]

Furthermore: I've gone through my document and re-set all instances of foreign words in Chapter or Section blocks to the default language, and now the document compiles without failure. So, there's something wrong with how Lyx is processing foreign language setting within those blocks that's causing it to fail. Still trying to isolate it.

However, there's also the following problem, still with the bibliography. Even though most of the entries are formatted properly, many of them aren't. The following entry:

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@InBook{knessl2003musiktheatralischefruehgeburt,
  chapter   = {5: Eine musiktheatralische Frühgeburt: Anmerkungen zu Amerika von Roman Haubenstock-Ramati},
  pages     = {65--75},
  title     = {Bühne, Film, Raum und Zeit in der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts},
  publisher = {B\"ohlau},
  year      = {2003},
  author    = {Knessl, Lothar},
  editor    = {Krones, Hartmut},
  series    = {Wiener Schriften zur Stilkunde und Auff\"uhrungspraxis. - Sonderreihe Symposien zu Wien Modern},
  address   = {Wien},
}

when I include a page number with Lyx's dialog, just gives the page number and the entry key, without processing it into a proper entry. This is using biblatex-chicago. I'll check with the MWE and see if it happens there as well. They are correctly formatted in the bibliography itself, so maybe it's just including the page numbers?

[ExecutorElassus]

More weirdness: I've found that a lot of times, if I use the "update master" command from within Lyx, xetex will fail out with an error (though the log will say that xetex finished successfully and output a document with the right number of pages). However, if I then select "Reconfigure" from the menu (and then re-set mupdf as my pdf viewer, because "Reconfigure" resets this option), I can then re-run the preview without problem.

In the Latex log, the only errors I see are like this:

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[14]
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
<to be read again> 
                   \endgroup 
\blx@endunit ->\endgroup 
                         \global \toggletrue {blx@insert}\global \toggletrue...
<argument> \printfield [tnoformat]{title}
                                         \setunit {\addcolon \addspace }\pri...

\emph  ...roup \text@command {#1}\em \check@icl #1
                                                  \check@icr \expandafter \e...

\mkbibemph #1->\emph {#1}
                         \blx@imc@setpunctfont \emph 
\blx@theformat #1->\mkbibemph {#1}
                                  \isdot 
<argument> ...}\printfield [stnoformat]{subtitle}}
                                                  \blx@endunit 
\@secondoftwo #1#2->#2
                      
\abx@macro@citaltitle+stitle ...ormat]{subtitle}}}
                                                  \setunit {\ctitleaddonpunc...

\blx@bbx@cite:book ...bibmacro {citaltitle+stitle}
                                                  \setunit {\addspace }\useb...
...
l.645 ...zky2010game}, and \citet{montfort201210}.
                                                  
I've inserted something that you may have forgotten.
(See the <inserted text> above.)
With luck, this will get me unwedged. But if you
really didn't forget anything, try typing `2' now; then
my insertion and my current dilemma will both disappear.

and a warning that I should update polyglossia.

Furthermore, I have the following entry in my .bib file:

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@Misc{drees2010wienmodern-rhr,
  author       = {Drees, Stefan},
  title        = {Zwischen abstrakter Grafik und musikalischer Notation},
  year         = {2010},
  address      = {Wien},
  date         = {2010-10-30},
  entrysubtype = {program notes},
}

If I delete the entrysubtype, I can also compile without error. Am I formatting that incorrectly?

My distribution is still using texlive-xetex-2015 (which is apparently where polyglossia is included). Might this be causing some problems?

Cheers,

EE

[Johannes_B]

I cannot reproduce the behaviour you are descrbing. Please post a minimal working example.

[ExecutorElassus]

The attached .lyx file (used together with the .bib file also uploaded) fails with "undefined control sequence" errors. Can you reproduce that?

Cheers,

EE

[ExecutorElassus]

here's the .bib file

[Johannes_B]

I don't have LyX installed. I don't need it, i don't use it. Please convert/export your code to LaTeX.

[ExecutorElassus]

/o

I posted this problem to the Lyx forum, specifically because I suspected that some of the problems I'm having are due to the newest version of Lyx (noted in the title of the topic) formatting things strangely and outputting to .tex (which is how I assume it hands off to xetex) incorrectly.

But very well. Here's the .tex exported by Lyx of that .lyx file. Do you see anything here that shouldn't be formatted the way it is?

Cheers,

EE

[Johannes_B]

Which error message is that producing on your machine? (From the small example.)

[ExecutorElassus]

Hi Johannes,

this is the only error in the log (compiling the .lyx file using biber and xetex):

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LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 33.
! Undefined control sequence.
\@begindocumenthook ...dafter {\bbl@main@language 
                                                  }\bbl@clear@ttribs \Declar...
l.33 \begin{document}
                     
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


Package polyglossia Warning: File gloss-.ldf does not exist!
(polyglossia)                I will nevertheless try to use hyphenation pattern
s for . on input line 33.


Package polyglossia Warning: \setlocalhyphenmin useless for unknown language  o
n input line 33.


Package polyglossia Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for `
(polyglossia)                I will use \language=\l@nohyphenation instead on i
nput line 33.

I also see these warnings:

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Package polyglossia Warning: File gloss-usenglish.ldf does not exist!
(polyglossia)                I will nevertheless try to use hyphenation pattern
s for usenglish. on input line 22.


Package biblatex Warning: Upgrade package 'polyglossia' to >v1.42.0 recommended

Do you not see similar errors?

Cheers,

EE

[Johannes_B]

Yes i do, the error comes from using babel [t]and[/i] polyglossia, and worse, polyglossia doesn't have a definition for USenglish. Personally, i would drop the two lines.

If you do, the problem you first stated doesn't come up, and the language error is not related to the math error (as far as i can tell).