[OS X TeX] MacOSX-TeX: Problem with BibTex

[Curtis Clifton]

Lisa,

On Apr 29, 2004, at 1:43 AM, Samuel Lelievre wrote:

>> bibtex and latex don't like URLs because of the special characters in 
>> them
>> i.e. "_" which you need to edit to the latex compatible version, i.e. 
>> "\_".
>
> I don't use bibtex but when I include urls I use verbatim as in
>   \verb+http://my_url.etc/+

I regularly use the url package with bibtex and natbib.  It works like 
a charm.  Just put a \usepackage{url} in the preamble and use 
\url{http:...} to wrap URLs in the bibtex database.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, Graduate Student
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
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