[OS X TeX] BibTeX problems

[Adam R. Maxwell]

Jason,

By chance, do you refer to BibDesk, rather than BibTeX?

If it's BibDesk (as I suspect from your note about the error window), 
send me the .bib file off-list, tell me exactly what  you've done, and 
I'll take a look.

-- 
Adam

On Mar 3, 2005, at 07:11, Jason Davies wrote:

> I spent some hours 'debugging' a bib file to try to use BibTex, saved
> and was happy. Today I opened it and got a long list of rather 
> familiar
> errors, including
>
>     Author = {Holowchak, M. A.},
>
>     possible runaway string...
>
>     (the fact that the error window disappears as soon as I switch to
> Mailsmith does not help my reporting here...)
>
> what's going on?:-) especially, how come it happily saved then gave me
> all these errors on reopening (yes, it's the same file).
>
> I can't face all that again unless someone convinces me that BibTex is
> doing something I can work with - I'd love to use it, but have found 
> all
> kinds of things I can't work out (like accents errors which I cannot
> fathom...)
>
> thanks for any wisdom on this...
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